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About Elisha Cooke Sr.
Elisha Cooke was a wealthy Massachusetts physician, politician, and businessman who was elected Speaker of the Massachusetts Bay Assembly in 1683. He was the leader of the "popular party", a faction in the Massachusetts House that resisted encroachment by royal officials on colonial rights embodied in the Massachusetts Charter. This role was taken up by his son, Elisha Cooke Jr.
Everything about Elisha Cooke Sr. →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 16, 1637
- Died
- October 31, 1715