Elisha Cooke
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Elisha Cooke
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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.
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American physician (1637–1715)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Cooke
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2023-10-25T21:31:56Z
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