Martin Cooke was a master butcher who became the

Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey The Mayor of the City of Hoboken is the head of the executive branch of government of Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. The mayor has the duty to enforce the municipal charter and ordinances; prepare the annual budget; appoint deputy mayors, ...

, serving from 1912 to 1915.

Biography

He was born in 1872. He married Helen Shugrue and had a son, Martin W. Cooke. He had served as the Fire Commissioner of Hoboken, Tax Commissioner of Hoboken and member of the Tax Appeals Board, and was a Hudson County Freeholder in 1910. In August 1912, a crowbar dropped by a workman working at the Old Court House, narrowly missed striking the mayor. He was

, from 1912 to 1915. Starting in 1932 he was custodian of the Hudson County Court House. He died on July 31, 1944, in

Hoboken, New Jersey Hoboken ( ; ) is a City (New Jersey), city in Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub. As of the ...

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