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♂ J. Robert Cooke
aliasJ. Robert Cooke
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Ontario 6 0 6
Birth 1 September 1866 → 157 years + 7 months ago
Lived 67 years + 11 months
First mandate 11 December 1911 → 112 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 3 months
Death 13 August 1934 → 89 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 1 month + 26 days after 18 June 1934
Special notes
None
 

J. Robert Cooke (1866–1934)
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Well that's interesting!
An Ontario Conservative MPP, Cooke died of injuries sustained in a car accident caused by his having a heart attack while driving, two weeks short of his 68th birthday. He had left politics less than two months earlier.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 22 6 1 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
13		 Ontario
11 December 1911
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 33923(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
45
LC
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 2 years 6 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,653 Votes: 2,863 Participation: 61.53% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Ontario
29 June 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34034(F) — 29 Dec 2022 08:56 ET
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 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LC
 1/2 2,247 79.01% +1,650 Loser:
LIB
 597 20.99% John MacInnes

Service: 5 years 3 months 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
15		 Ontario
20 October 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFO  Minority
ID: 34167(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
LC
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 8 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,537 Votes: 6,127 Participation: 58.15% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Ontario
25 June 1923
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34294(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LC
 1/2 4,356 71.77% +2,643 Loser:
UFO
 1,713 28.23% John McCaffrey

Service: 3 years 5 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,842 Votes: 5,996 Participation: 60.92% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
17		 Ontario
1 December 1926
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34417(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
LC
 1/2 4,008 67.23% +2,054 Loser:
PROH
 1,954 32.77% Lucas Sharpe

Service: 2 years 10 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
18		 Ontario
30 October 1929
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34533(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
LC
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 4 years 7 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,439 Votes: 12,096 Participation: 78.35% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Ontario
19 June 1934
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 34660(F) — 28 Dec 2022 07:41 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
67		 Successor:
LC
 6,257 51.73% James F. Hill

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
John Robert Cooke		 23 Dec 2023
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
John Robert Cooke		 23 Dec 2023
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
John Robert Cooke		 23 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
John Robert Cooke		 23 Dec 2023

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