Wyndham Cook

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

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|honorific-prefix =

|name = Wyndham Cook

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|office = Member of the Legislative Assembly
of Western Australia

|constituency = Albany

|term_start = 6 June 1970

|term_end = 30 March 1974

|predecessor = Jack Hall

|successor = Leon Watt

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|3|20|df=y}}

|birth_place = Yarloop, Western Australia, Australia

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|party = Labor

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Wyndham Truran Cook (born 20 March 1943) is a former Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1970 to 1974, representing the seat of Albany.

Cook was born in Yarloop, a small town in Western Australia's South West region. After leaving school, he worked variously as an engineman (with Western Australian Government Railways), a shop assistant, and a butcher.[http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/47A56770EB721B85482577E50028A57E?OpenDocument Wyndham Truran Cook] – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 27 May 2016. A trade union official and a member of the Labor Party since 1962, Cook was elected to parliament at the 1970 Albany by-election, which had been caused by the resignation of Jack Hall, the sitting Labor member. Hall had been suffering from ill health and died before the by-election was held. Aged only 27 when elected, Cook retained Albany at the 1971 state election, but was defeated by the Liberal Party's Leon Watt at the 1974 election.{{cite book|last=Black|first=David|authorlink=David Black (historian)|last2=Prescott|first2=Valerie|title=Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996|year=1997|publisher=Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission|location=Perth, [W.A.]|isbn=0730984095}} After leaving parliament, he operated a tour company in the Mid West. He later lived in Queensland, eventually retiring to Renmark, South Australia.