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James Cooper (Canadian politician)

Jim Cooper
MPP for Sudbury
In office
1937–1943
Preceded by Edmond Lapierre
Succeeded by Robert Carlin
Personal details
Born James Maxwell Cooper
(1900-06-17)June 17, 1900
Sudbury, Ontario
Died November 29, 1979(1979-11-29) (aged 79)
Sudbury, Ontario
Political party Liberal
Residence Sudbury, Ontario
Occupation businessman

James Maxwell Cooper (June 17, 1900 – November 29, 1979) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1937 to 1943. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. He was born in Sudbury.

While in the Legislature, he was one of six Northern Ontario MPPs who absented themselves from a vote to censure the federal government for "not prosecuting the war with sufficient diligence".

Following his time in politics, he became an investor in the city's media; with coinvestors George Miller and Bill Plaunt, he purchased the Sudbury Star and radio station CKSO in 1950, and launched CKSO-TV in 1953. He died at a nursing home in 1979.



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