Hume Cook

Hume Cook

James Newton Haxton Hume Cook CMG, known as "Hume Cook", (23 September 18668 August 1942) was an Australian politician.

Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books. He migrated with his family to Melbourne in 1881. He left home in 1887 to sell real estate and soon became active in the Australian Natives Association. In 1893, he was elected to Brunswick Town Council and in 1896 became mayor. In 1902, he married Nellie Maine. Australian Dictionary of Biography
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Political career

Cook was elected to the seat of East Bourke Boroughs in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1894. He supported to federation of Australia 1897, but came only 19th in the vote for the Victorian delegates to the 1897 Australasian Federal Convention. He supported liberal causes, such as protection and state intervention into wage-fixing and working conditions, but lost his seat in 1900.

Cook won the Australian House of Representatives seat of Bourke at the first federal election in 1901 as a Protectionist. He joined the fusion in 1909 in an attempt to hold on to his seat, although its creation ran against his liberal princples. From January 1908 to the defeat of the government in 1908, he was a minister without portfolios in the Deakin ministry. He chaired a royal commission on postal services from June to December 1908. The Labor Party campaigned actively against him at the 1910 election and he was defeated by Frank Anstey. He ran unsuccessfully for Maribyrnong at the 1913 election.

Cook was involved with Billy Hughes in the establishement of the Nationalist Party in 1916 and the Australian Party in 1929 and 1930. He was also secretary of the Australian Industries Protection League from 1922 until his death and represented Australian industry at the British Empire Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932. In 1941, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). He died in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton, Victoria, survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons.

Notes

Persondata
NAME = Cook, James Newton Haxton Hume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Cook, Hume
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 23 September 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH = Kihikihi, New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH = 8 August 1942
PLACE OF DEATH = Brighton, Victoria


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