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Martin Cooke (mayor)

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6775191 ↗
Source-derived summary

Martin Cooke was a master butcher who became the Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, serving from 1912 to 1915.

Biography

He was born in 1872. He married Helen Shugrue and had a son, Martin W. Cooke.

He had served as the Fire Commissioner of Hoboken, Tax Commissioner of Hoboken and member of the Tax Appeals Board, and was a Hudson County Freeholder in 1910. In August 1912, a crowbar dropped by a workman working at the Old Court House, narrowly missed striking the mayor. He was Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1912 to 1915.

Starting in 1932 he was custodian of the Hudson County Court House.

He died on July 31, 1944, in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Martin Cooke (mayor)” as american politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1915, 1872, 1910—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1872. The account is most persuasive where Martin, Cooke and mayor can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6775191. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1915, 1872 and 1910.

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This entry incorporates text from “Martin Cooke (mayor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.