Henry Cohen (politician)

Isaac Henry Cohen KC (21 February 1872 – 20 December 1942) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Melbourne to financier David Cohen and Rachael Marks. He attended Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1894 and a Bachelor of Law in 1895. In 1896 he was called to the bar, but he received little work for his first decade as a barrister. On 27 June 1901 he married Ethel Mary Keon, with whom he had five children. He took silk in 1920 and in 1921 was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne Province as a Nationalist. He was a minister without portfolio from 1923 to 1924, Minister of Public Works and Mines from March to July 1924, Attorney-General and Solicitor-General in July 1924, Minister of Public Instruction from 1928 to 1929, and Minister of Water Supply and Electrical Undertakings from March to April 1935. He was the unofficial leader of the Nationalist Party in the Legislative Council from 1922 to 1923, 1924 to 1929, and 1935 to 1937. In 1937 he contested Higinbotham Province but was defeated. He died in Armadale in 1942.^[1]

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