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Marjorie Alexandra Cooper (May 28, 1902 – September 12, 1984) was an educator, civil servant, and political figure in
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. She represented
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from 1952 to 1964 and
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from 1964 to 1967 in the
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as a
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(CCF) member. She was the third woman elected to the Saskatchewan assembly and the longest sitting female member of the assembly. Born Marjorie Alexandra Lovering in
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, she was the daughter of
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-born parents Henry Langston Lovering and Annie Jane Boselly. Her family moved to
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in 1907. Cooper taught school in McCord from 1919 to 1925, when she married Ed Cooper. She was president of the Regina
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from 1941 to 1943 and president of the Regina Council of Women from 1946 to 1948. In 1945, she was named to the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board and, in 1951, to the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission. After the death of her first husband, she married Wilfred Hunt in 1967. She died in Regina at the age of 82.


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20th-century Canadian women politicians 1902 births 1984 deaths Canadian women educators Politicians from Regina, Saskatchewan Politicians from Winnipeg Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MLAs Women MLAs in Saskatchewan 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan {{CCF-Saskatchewan-MLA-stub