Edmund Francis Cooke (April 13, 1885 – May 13, 1967) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Fearing that he might be killed without having been baptized, his mother summoned a neighbor and the two women christened him without benefit of clergy.

He moved with his parents to Alden, New York in 1887 where his grandfather lived, and it was there that he gained a first-hand knowledge of dairy farmers' problems and polished his oratorical skills by giving speeches to the corn stalks in the fields.

During World War I he was Secretary for the YMCA in Europe and laid plans to pursue a political career when he returned home.

Cooke then resumed the practice of law in Buffalo and began his decades of work to improve the lot of dairy farmers in the Northeast Milk Shed.