Joseph Cook

Date of birth | 7 December 1860

Date of death | 30 July 1947

Wife | Mary Cook
Party | Liberal Party
Prime Minister
From | 24 June 1913
To | 17 September 1914
Succeeded | Andrew Fisher
Preceded | Andrew Fisher

The Rt. Hon. Joseph Cook was the first Australia's first Liberal Party Prime Minister, although his party was a different organization to the present Liberal Party.

Cook became Prime Minister as a result of the Liberal Party winning the 31 May 1913 election by one seat, although the party failed to win a majority in the senate. When the Senate twice refused to pass a government bill, Cook sought a double dissolution, but the Labor Party won the subsequent election in both houses.

## Sources[edit]

* National Museum of Australia, Joseph Cook

Australian Prime Ministers

Edmund Barton (1901)

Alfred Deakin (1903, 1905, and 1909)
John Watson (1904)
George Reid (1904)
Andrew Fisher (1908, 1910, and 1914)
Joseph Cook (1913)
William Hughes (1915)

| Stanley Bruce (1923)

James Scullin (1929)
Joseph Lyons (1932)
Earle Page (1939)
Robert Menzies (1939 and 1949)
Arthur Fadden (1941)
John Curtin (1941)

| Francis Forde (1945)

Joseph Chifley (1945)
Harold Holt (1966)
John McEwen (1967)
John Gorton (1968)
William McMahon (1971)
Gough Whitlam (1972)

| Malcolm Fraser (1975)

Robert Hawke (1983)
Paul Keating (1991)
John Howard (1996)
Kevin Rudd (2007)