Edmund John Cotter (30 March 1866 – 12 September 1947) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to police constable John Cotter and Ellen Ryan. He attended a Catholic school in Ballarat and became a cooper at

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and then at

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. On 9 May 1889 he married Dinah May Hodges, with whom he had three children. He was secretary of the Coopers' Union and an executive member of the Trades Hall Council. In 1908 he won a by-election for the

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seat of

, representing the Labor Party. He held his seat until 1945, when he lost Labor preselection and retired. Cotter died in

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in 1947.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cotter, Ted 1866 births 1947 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly