John Jacob Cohen (20 December 1859 – 25 March 1939) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
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to storekeeper Samuel Cohen and Rosetta Manser. He attended
Ullamarra Public School and
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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
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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 had two sons. Cohen returned to
Sydney
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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
Judge of the District Court, 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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1859 births
1939 deaths
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Speakers of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Judges of the District Court of NSW
20th-century Australian judges