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Tasker Cook
Tasker Cook (June 30, 1867 - September 25, 1937)〔"Passing of Sir Tasker Cook". ''Newfoundland Quarterly'', October 1937, Vol. 37(2), p. 16.〕 was a politician in the Dominion of Newfoundland, who served as mayor of St. John's from 1921 to 1929.〔Melvin Baker, "St. John's Municipal Chairmen and Mayors, 1888-1988. ''Newfoundland Quarterly'', Vol. LXXX1V, No. 1, Summer 1988, pp. 5-11.〕 First elected mayor in 1921, he won a second term by acclamation in 1925.〔 His term in office was marked by various public works projects and by the creation of the city's first planning committee;〔 however, many infrastructure projects in the city remained hamstrung by his reluctance to introduce new municipal taxes.〔 He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Newfoundland by Prime Minister Richard Squires in 1928, and was a chair of the Newfoundland Railway Commission. He was named a Knight Bachelor by Edward VIII in 1931.〔"Hon. Sir Tasker K. Cook, K.B., M.L.C., K.D., K.S.O., C.L.D.E.H. (Knight Bachelor )". ''Newfoundland Magazine & Commercial Advertiser'', January 1931, Vol. 6(1), p. 5.〕 ==References==
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