About John Cockburn (Australian politician)
Sir John Alexander Cockburn was Premier of South Australia from 27 June 1889 to 18 August 1890. London, with first class honours and gold medal. In 1878, Cockburn was elected as the first mayor of the Corporate Town of Jamestown. On 27 June 1889, Cockburn became the first doctor to become premier, a role he held for fourteen months before he lost a no-confidence motion and handing back to Thomas Playford. At the Convention he had the equal best attendance record of the fifty or so delegates, but almost as often as not was on the losing side in its votes, reflecting in part his independence of faction.
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