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  1. Cook was Prime Minister until September 1914 and later served as a minister in Billy Hughes’ Nationalist government. Cook's beginnings. Joseph Cook was born on 7 December 1860 at Silverdale, Staffordshire, England. He was one of five children of William Cooke and Margaret Fletcher.

    • Early Years
    • Member For Hartley
    • Member For Parramatta
    • The Rocky Path to Fusion
    • Defence Minister 1909–10
    • Liberal Leader

    Joseph Cook was born in Staffordshire in England on 7 December 1860 to William and Margaret (Fletcher) Cooke. At the age of 9, he started work in the mines as a pit boy. Cook joined the local Primitive Methodist Church, and read and studied to make up for his lack of education. At the age of 16, he was a lay preacher and active in the local trade u...

    In Lithgow, Joseph Cook led a busy life. He worked in the mines and was an active unionist. He was studying to become a Methodist minister, as well as learning typing, shorthand and book-keeping. In 1888, a few months after the Cooks’ second son, Albert, was born, Joseph Cook became general secretary of the union. He was an avowed republican and a ...

    Apparently at George Reid’s insistence, Cook stood for the House of Representatives seat of Parramatta at the first federal election in March 1901. He won the seat and joined Reid’s Free Trade Opposition in the first Commonwealth parliament. With Cook now often in Melbourne, when their seventh child, Cecil, was born in 1902, the family moved to the...

    Under Cook’s leadership, the Free Trade Party joined Alfred Deakin’s Liberals in an anti-socialist ‘fusion’. The negotiations with Deakin to form the new Fusion Party were far from smooth. In January 1909, Cook noted in his diary: But Cook’s opposition to Labor was firm and forceful on all issues, most importantly on the nature of the Federation. O...

    In the new government, Joseph Cook was no longer confined to attacking defence policy from the sidelines, whether Andrew Fisher’s or Alfred Deakin’s. His role in the Fusion coalition, his senior Cabinet position as Defence Minister and his own doggedness gave him considerable influence. Defence was the key concern of the final session of the third ...

    The Fusion Party, renamed the Liberal Party, remained in Opposition for three years. Cook was a key figure in establishing the organisational structure of the party and in shaping its ‘anti-socialist’ policies in opposing the Labor Party. Though he was a man of little magnetism, Cook’s sense of purpose attracted attention when he was in attack mode...

  2. Australia's prime ministers. Joseph Cook: fast facts. Joseph Cook was the prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914. Personal profile. Born. 7 December 1860, Silverdale, Staffordshire, England. Education. St Luke's School, Silverdale, about 1866 to 1873. Employment. Coalminer. Clerk. Politician. Diplomat. Royal commissioner. Memberships.

  3. Sir Joseph Cook (born Dec. 7, 1860, Silverdale, Staffordshire, Eng.—died July 30, 1947, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia) was an early prime minister (1913–14) of a federated Australia who helped found the nation’s military institutions.

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  5. 30 de abr. de 2022 · William Cooke. father. About Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia. Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947) was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia.