Division of Cook (1906-55)

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Cook
Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory: New South Wales
Created: 1906
Abolished: 1955
Namesake: James Cook

The Division of Cook was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1906 and abolished in 1955. The Division was named for James Cook, who discovered the east coast of Australia in 1770. It was located in the inner suburbs of Sydney, taking in the suburbs of Alexandria, Redfern and Surry Hills. It has been a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, but in the 1930s and 40s it was fiercely contested between Federal Labor and Lang Labor factions of the party.

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Member Party Term
  James Catts Labor 19061922
  Edward Riley Labor 19221934
  John Garden Lang Labor 19341936
  Labor 19361937
  Thomas Sheehan Labor 19371940
  Lang Labor 19401941
  Labor 19411955
  James Cope Labor 1955—1955

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