James Cooper (Ontario politician)
James Maxwell Cooper (June 17, 1900 – November 29, 1979) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1937 to 1943. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. He was born in Sudbury.[1]
Jim Cooper | |
|---|---|
| MPP for Sudbury | |
| In office 1937–1943 | |
| Preceded by | Edmond Lapierre |
| Succeeded by | Robert Carlin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Maxwell Cooper June 17, 1900 Sudbury, Ontario |
| Died | November 29, 1979 (aged 79) Sudbury, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Occupation | businessman |
While in the Legislature, he was one of six Northern Ontario MPPs who absented themselves from a vote to censure the federal government for "not prosecuting the war with sufficient diligence".[2]
Following his time in politics, he became an investor in the city's media; with coinvestors George Miller and Bill Plaunt, he purchased the Sudbury Star and radio station CKSO in 1950, and launched CKSO-TV in 1953.[2] He died at a nursing home in 1979.[3]
References
- Normandin, P.G.; Normandin, A.L. (1941). "The Canadian Parliamentary Guide". The Canadian Parliamentary Guide = Guide Parlementaire Canadien. Normandin. ISSN 0315-6168. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital. Dundurn Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55002-170-2.
- "Deaths". The Globe and Mail, December 1, 1979. pg. D16.
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