Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton

Lewis Coleman Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton, of Brighton in the County of Sussex (* March 28, 1897, † October 21, 1966 ) was a British business leaders and Labour Party politician, who was mayor of Brighton temporarily and 1965 as a Life Peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Cohen, who was from a Jewish family and son of a jeweler, was educated at the Grammar Schools in Hastings and Brighton and the Ecole Moyenne de Saint- Giles in Brussels. His professional career began in 1929 as secretary of the construction company Brighton and Sussex Building Society.

His political career began Cohen in local politics when he was first elected in 1930 as the candidate of the Labour Party as a member of the city council of Brighton, where he remained for several decades. In 1933 he was executive director of the Brighton and Sussex Building Society. During this time he sat down for the Jewish community in Brighton a.

During his tenure as mayor of Brighton, Cohen dedicated 1956-1957 along with Howard Johnson, who as a member of the city council of Brighton and 1950-1959 as a deputy of the constituency Brighton Kemptown in the House of Commons representing the Conservative Party, for the establishment of a municipal housing company. After he was from Brighton and Sussex Building Society emerged Alliance Building Society since 1959 Chairman and Managing Director, he took over in 1964, the function of Assistant ( Alderman ) of Brighton.

By Letters Patent of 13 May 1965 Cohen was raised due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Cohen of Brighton, of Brighton in the County of Sussex in the peerage and thus belonged to his death in the House of Lords than at Member.