Joseph Cohen (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Joseph Cohen (politician)
- Joseph Cohen, (August 12, 1891 – September 24, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician. Born in Russayn, Russian Empire, the son of Myer Cohen, a Jewish clergyman, and Rebecca Benyash, Cohen was with his family when it migrated to Canada in 1892, settling in Montreal, Quebec.
- He studied at the High School of Montreal, McGill University, and at the Université Laval in Quebec.
- He studied law under Samuel William Jacobs and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1913.
- He was created a King's Counsel in 1926.A criminal lawyer, he practiced in Montreal.
- He first ran for the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal–Saint-Laurent in 1923 but was defeated.
- He was elected in 1927 and re-elected in 1931 and 1935.
- In 1936, the election results were declared invalid and he did not run in the resulting by-election.From 1952 to 1961, he was a professor of criminal law at McGill University.
- He died in Montreal in 1973 and was buried in Montreal in the cemetery of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim.
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