Joseph Cook
Sir Joseph Cook (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947) was the sixth Prime Minister of Australia from June 1913 until September 1914. He was Prime Minister when World War I started. He moved to London when he retired.
Rt Hon Sir Joseph Cook | |
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| 6th Prime Minister of Australia | |
| In office 24 June 1913 – 17 September 1914 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Fisher |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Fisher |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1860 Silverdale, England |
| Died | 30 July 1947 (aged 86) |
| Political party | Labor, Free Trade/Anti-Socialist, Fusion |
| Prime Ministers of Australia | 
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| Barton | Deakin | Watson | Reid | Fisher | Cook | Hughes | Bruce | Scullin | Lyons | Page | Menzies | Fadden | Curtin | Forde | Chifley | Holt | McEwen | Gorton | McMahon | Whitlam | Fraser | Hawke | Keating | Howard | Rudd | Gillard | Abbott | |
Joseph Cook Media
Cook lived in a small terraced house at 86 Newcastle Street for most of his childhood. The building now has a blue plaque commemorating his life.
Joseph Cook, 3 August 1894.
Cook and Alfred Deakin together in 1909
Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia
Cook's signature on the Treaty of Versailles, situated after that of Hughes and before those of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, and William Massey
Portrait of Cook by James Guthrie, c. 1920
Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia
Bust of Joseph Cook by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
