James Cooper

Who is James Cooper?

James Maxwell Cooper was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1937 to 1943. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. He was born in Sudbury.

While in the Legislature, he was one of six Northern Ontario MPPs who absented themselves from a vote to censure the federal government for "not prosecuting the war with sufficient diligence".

He was later one of the original owners of Sudbury's first television station, CKSO-TV. He died at a nursing home in 1979.