John Henry Cook (May 6, 1902 – May 2, 1980) was a barber and politician in

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, Canada. He represented

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in the

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from 1943 to 1945 as a

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(CCF) member. The son of Henry Saunder Koch and Lavina Bergey, he was born John Henry Koch in Woolwich township and was educated there, in St. Jacobs, in Kitchener, in

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and in

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. In 1935, Cook married Emma M. Debus. He was secretary-treasurer of the Barbers International Union and president of the Twin Cities Trade and Labor Council. Cook was also a member of the

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. He served on Kitchener city council from 1946 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1965. Cook, a

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, was of

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descent. He died following a

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at the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital at the age of 77.

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1902 births 1980 deaths Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPPs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario {{Ontario-MPP-stub