About Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton
Lived 1897 – 1966 (aged 69). Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton was a British manager and politician.
Lewis Coleman Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton (28 March 1897 – 21 October 1966) was a British politician. Cohen was elected as a Labour councillor and Mayor to Brighton Borough Council. On the council he specialised in housing and worked together with Howard Johnson (a Conservative councillor) to support a local housing association. Cohen and Johnson also knew each other through business.
Cohen twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament, as Labour Party candidate for Brighton in the general election of 1931 and in 1935.
Cohen was created a life peer on 13 May 1965 taking the title Baron Cohen of Brighton, of Brighton in the County of Sussex.
He was the founder of the Alliance Building Society and had many building projects which were ahead of their time in Brighton and wider Sussex.
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British politician (1897-1966)
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Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton was born on 28 March 1897.
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Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton died on 21 October 1966.
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Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton was a manager and politician.
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Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton was British.
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