Sam Cohen

Samuel Herbert Cohen (26 October 1918 – 7 October 1969) was an Australian politician, and was the first Jew to be elected to the Australian Senate.He was born in Sydney, he was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne and then the University of Melbourne. He was active in left-wing student politics, and as President of the Melbourne University Students' Representative Council was a founding member of the executive committee of the National Union of Australian University Students. He served in the military from 1942 to 1943 and became a barrister in 1946. In 1961, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Victoria. In 1967, he was elected Deputy Opposition Leader in the Senate to Lionel Murphy. He held this position until his death in 1969; Bill Brown was appointed to replace him in his Senate seat.