Richard-Stanislas Cooke (January 23, 1850 – July 10, 1924) was a politician from

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Background

He was born on January 23, 1850, in

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

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. He was a lawyer. He was married to Marie-Sara-Henriette-Louise Lajoie in 1877 and to Florence Genest in 1889.

Mayor of Trois-Rivières

He was a Council member from 1880 to 1886 and from 1888 to 1889 and Mayor of

from 1896 to 1898.

Member of the legislature

He ran as a

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candidate in the district of

in the 1892 general election and the

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held in that same year. Each time he lost. He was elected in

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, but did not run for re-election in

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Retirement from Politics

Cooke was appointed judge in 1904. He died on July 10, 1924.

References

1850 births 1924 deaths Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Mayors of Trois-Rivières 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec 19th-century mayors of places in Quebec Université Laval alumni {{Quebec-mayor-stub