Cook, Sir Joseph

Cook, Sir Joseph

▪ prime minister of Australia
born Dec. 7, 1860, Silverdale, Staffordshire, Eng.
died July 30, 1947, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
 early prime minister (1913–14) of a federated Australia who helped found the nation's military institutions.

      Cook emigrated to New South Wales in 1885 and worked as a coal miner until 1891, when he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a member of the Labor Party. After leaving the party over the tariff issue in 1894, he held posts in the state cabinet until 1899.

      Beginning his 20-year tenure in the federal Parliament in 1901, Cook became leader of the Free Trade Party in 1908 and the following year formed a coalition with the Liberal government headed by Alfred Deakin (Deakin, Alfred). In Deakin's administration (1909–10), he helped establish the Australian navy. He was elected prime minister in 1913 but had inadequate support in Parliament and was voted out of office the following year. His government's most imaginative step was to appoint an Inter-State Commission.

      In 1917 Cook joined the wartime ministry of William Hughes as minister of the navy, served on the Imperial War Cabinet in London (1918), and was Australia's senior delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919. Between 1921 and his retirement in 1927, he acted as high commissioner for Australia in London and as his country's representative to the League of Nations. He was knighted in 1918.

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