James Cooper (Ontario politician)

James Maxwell Cooper (June 17, 1900 – November 29, 1979) 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.^[1]

Jim Cooper
MPP for Sudbury
In office 1937–1943
Preceded by	Edmond Lapierre
Succeeded by	Robert Carlin
Personal details
Born	James Maxwell Cooper (1900-06-17)June 17, 1900 Sudbury, Ontario
Died	November 29, 1979(1979-11-29) (aged 79) Sudbury, Ontario
Political party	Liberal
Residence(s)	Sudbury, Ontario
Occupation	businessman

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".^[2]

Following his time in politics, he became an investor in the city's media; with coinvestors George Miller and Bill Plaunt, he purchased the Sudbury Star and radio station CKSO in 1950, and launched CKSO-TV in 1953.^[2] He died at a nursing home in 1979.^[3]