| Jim Cooper | |
| Birth Date: | 17 June 1900 |
| Birth Name: | James Maxwell Cooper |
| Birth Place: | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Death Place: | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Residence: | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Office: | MPP for Sudbury |
| Term Start: | 1937 |
| Term End: | 1943 |
| Predecessor: | Edmond Lapierre |
| Successor: | Robert Carlin |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Occupation: | businessman |
James Maxwell Cooper (June 17, 1900 – November 29, 1979) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1937 to 1943. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. He was born in Sudbury.[1]
While in the Legislature, he was one of six Northern Ontario MPPs who absented themselves from a vote to censure the federal government for "not prosecuting the war with sufficient diligence".[2]
Following his time in politics, he became an investor in the city's media; with coinvestors George Miller and Bill Plaunt, he purchased the Sudbury Star and radio station CKSO in 1950, and launched CKSO-TV in 1953.[2] He died at a nursing home in 1979.[3]