Joseph Cook

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Sir Joseph Cook GCMG (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947) was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. He worked in the coal mines of Silverdale Staffordshire during his early life he emigrated to Lithgow New South Wales during the late 1880s and became General-Secretary of the Western Miners Association in 1887.A founding member of the Australian Labor Party Cook was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as Member for Hartley on 3 July 1891.

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active years end date

1914-09-17, 1921-12-10

active years start date

1901-03-30, 1913-06-24

birth date

1860-12-07

birth place

England, Staffordshire, Silverdale Staffordshire

death date

1947-07-30

death place

New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

governor general

Ronald Munro Ferguson 1st Viscount Novar, Thomas Denman 3rd Baron Denman

monarch

George V

nationality

British people

order in office

6th Prime Minister of Australia, Member of the Australian Parliament for Parramatta

party

Australian Labor Party, Free Trade Party, Commonwealth Liberal Party

relation

Richard Cecil Cook

religion

Methodist Church of Australasia

spouse

Dame Mary Cook

successor

Herbert Pratten, Andrew Fisher