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.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 16, 1637
- Died
