John Cohen (Australian politician)
John Jacob Cohen was an Australian politician.
He was born in Grafton, [New South Wales|Grafton] to storekeeper Samuel Cohen and Rosetta Manser. He attended Ullamarra Public School and Grafton Grammar School and then Calder House in Redfern. He received a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in mathematics from the University of Sydney in 1879 and a Master of Arts in 1881. Having also studied architecture at night school, he moved to Mackay in Queensland in 1882 as a consulting engineer and architect, subsequently moving to Brisbane in 1884. He married Bertie Hollander on 12 March 1889; they had two sons. Cohen returned to Sydney in 1892 and was called to the bar in 1894. In 1898 [New South Wales">Results of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election">1898 [New South Wales colonial election#Petersham|1898], he was elected to the New [South Wales Legislative Assembly] as the National Federal member for Petersham, but by 1901 he was re-elected as a Liberal [Reform Party (Australia)|Liberal]. A backbencher for most of his career, he was elected Speaker in 1917. In 1919, he resigned from parliament to become a List of judges of the [District Court of NSW#Judge|judge of the District Court], allegedly as part of a deal between William Holman and the Liberals that had led to the Nationalist government in 1917. Cohen remained on the District Court until 1929. He died in Woollahra in 1939.