James Cooper (Ontario politician)
Canadian politician (1900–1979)
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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 |
| Died | November 29, 1979 (aged 79) Sudbury, Ontario |
| Party | Liberal |
| 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]
