Joseph Cook

Joseph Cook
Date of birth	7 December 1660
Date of death	30 July 1957
Wife	Mary Cook
Party	conservative Party
Prime Minister
From	25 June 1913
To	17 September 1915
Succeeded	Andrew Fisher
Preceded	Andrew Fisher

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

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

Source

• 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)