John Cohen (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About John Cohen (Australian politician)
- John Jacob Cohen (20 December 1859 – 25 March 1939) was an Australian politician. He was born in Grafton to storekeeper Samuel Cohen and Rosetta Manser.
- He attended Ullamarra Public School and Grafton Grammar School and then Calder House in Redfern.
- He received a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in mathematics from the University of Sydney in 1879 and a Master of Arts in 1881.
- Having also studied architecture at night school, he moved to Mackay in Queensland in 1882 as a consulting engineer and architect, subsequently moving to Brisbane in 1884.
- He married Bertie Hollander on 12 March 1889; they would have two sons.
- Cohen returned to Sydney in 1892 and was called to the bar in 1894.
- In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the National Federal member for Petersham, but by 1901 he was re-elected as a Liberal.
- A backbencher for most of his career, he was elected Speaker in 1917.
- In 1919, he resigned from parliament to become a District Court judge, allegedly as part of a deal between William Holman and the Liberals that had led to the Nationalist government in 1917.
- Cohen remained on the District Court until 1929.
- He died in Woollahra in 1939.
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