Joseph Cook
Joseph Cook | |
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Date of birth | 7 December 1860 |
Date of death | 30 July 1947 |
Wife | Mary Cook |
Party | Liberal Party |
Prime Minister | |
From | 24 June 1913 |
To | 17 September 1914 |
Succeeded | Andrew Fisher |
Preceded | Andrew Fisher |
The Rt. Hon. Joseph Cook was the first Australia's first Liberal Party Prime Minister, although his party was a different organization to the present Liberal Party.
Cook became Prime Minister as a result of the Liberal Party winning the 31 May 1913 election by one seat, although the party failed to win a majority in the senate. When the Senate twice refused to pass a government bill, Cook sought a double dissolution, but the Labor Party won the subsequent election in both houses.
Sources
- National Museum of Australia, Joseph Cook
Australian Prime Ministers | |||
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Edmund Barton (1901) Alfred Deakin (1903, 1905, and 1909) |
Stanley Bruce (1923) James Scullin (1929) |
Francis Forde (1945) Joseph Chifley (1945) |
Malcolm Fraser (1975) Robert Hawke (1983) |