Ted Cotter

Edmund John "Ted" Cotter (30 March 1866 12 September 1947) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Ballarat to police constable John Cotter and Ellen Ryan. He attended a Catholic school in Ballarat and became a cooper at Geelong and then at Richmond. On 9 May 1889 he married Dinah May Hodges, with whom he had three children. He was secretary of the Coopers' Union and an executive member of the Trades Hall Council. In 1908 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Richmond, representing the Australian Labor Party. He held his seat until 1945, when he lost Labor preselection and retired. Cotter died in Canterbury in 1947.[1]

References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Cotter, Edmund (Edmond) John". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
George Bennett
Member for Richmond
19081945
Succeeded by
Stan Keon
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