Charles D. Cooper

Charles DeKay Cooper (* 1769 in Rhinebeck , Province of New York ; † the thirtieth January 1831 ) was an American physician ( physician ), lawyer and politician ( Democratic-Republican Party ).

Career

Charles DeKay Cooper, son of Elizabeth DeKay and Dr. Ananias Cooper, was born during the reign of King George III. born in Dutchess County . Nothing is known about his youth. He studied medicine with his father in New York City and became a physician. In 1791 he settled in Albany ( New York down) and started practicing 1,792th He married Margaret Vernor (around 1774-1860), the adopted daughter of Lieutenant Governor John Tayler . The couple had five children. One of the children was Major General John Tayler Cooper (1798–1878), a lawyer who married the daughter of New York State Comptroller John Vernon Henry . Another child was Reverend Charles DeKay Cooper (1813-1902), who married Cornelia Lansing Sutherland, granddaughter of Chancellor John Lansing .

In 1794 Charles DeKay Cooper was appointed harbor doctor in the Port of Albany .

In February 1804, Cooper attended a dinner party during which Alexander Hamilton vehemently and eloquently spoke out against the Federalist Party's plan to nominate Aaron Burr as their candidate for governor of New York . Cooper later wrote a letter to Philip Schuyler , Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law. There he referred to Hamilton's despicable opinion on Burr, which the latter expressed. This letter was published on the Albany Register , but compared to other attacks on Burr in the paper, this one was lame. Cooper's letter brought but the barrel in the ongoing rivalry between Burr and Hamilton. Burr read the letter a week later, which happened shortly after his defeat in the election for governor of New York. He got so furious about the statements made by Hamilton that he challenged him to a duel in which Hamilton was killed.

From March 1806 to June 1807 he was First Judge at Albany County Court. Cooper served on the Erie Canal Commission from 1815 to 1816 . In April 1817, Cooper was named Secretary of State of New York. At the time, his father-in-law, John Tayler, was acting governor of New York.

Cooper was buried in the Dutch Church Cemetery in Albany, New York.

literature

• Death List of A Day , The New York Times, October 13, 1902
• Hezekiah Niles and William Ogden Niles: Niles' Weekly Register , Volume 10, Hezekiah Niles, 1816, p. 101
• Robert Bolton: A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time , Volume 2, AS Gould, 1848, p. 511
• The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858, pp. 33 and 858
• Joel Munsell: The Annals of Albany , Volume 6, BiblioBazaar, 2008, ISBN 0-559-28203-6 , ISBN 978-0-559-28203-4 , p. 142

Web links

• Charles D. Cooper on The Political Graveyard website
• New York State Museum - Charles D. Cooper
• New York State Museum - Margaret Vernor Tayler Cooper

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Charles D. Cooper's Letter