Arthur Ernest Cook (6 September 1883 – 10 April 1945) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Sandhurst to engine driver Robert Cook and Mary Daley. He attended state school before becoming a hairdresser, owning his own business in
Bendigo from around 1901. On 28 April 1909 he married Mary Victoria Rocke, with whom he had four children. He served as vice-president of the Bendigo Trades Hall Council and was on the
Labor Party's state executive from 1916 to 1918. In 1924 he was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.
The presidin ...
as the Labor member for
Bendigo West
Bendigo West is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a
electorate centred on the city of Bendigo west of the Yungera railway line, and including surrounding rural towns to the west ...
, transferring to
Bendigo in 1927. He served until his death at
Parliament House in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
in 1945. One of his grandsons,
Esmond Curnow, later served in the Assembly.
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1883 births
1945 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
20th-century Australian politicians