Edmund Cooper (politician)

Edmund Cooper (born September 11, 1821 in Franklin , Tennessee , †  July 21, 1911 in Shelbyville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1866 and 1867 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edmund Cooper was the older brother of US Senator Henry Cooper (1827-1884). Until 1839 he attended Jackson College in Tennessee. After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Shelbyville in his new profession from 1841. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1849 he was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives . In the run-up to the civil war , he was a supporter of the Union and an elector for the Constitutional Union Party in the presidential election of 1860 . In 1861, Cooper was a delegate to a convention revising the Tennessee Constitution. In 1865 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives of his state.

After Tennessee was re-admitted to the Union, Cooper was elected as a unionist in the fourth constituency of his state to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on July 24, 1866. Since he was not confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1866 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1867 . These were marked by the violent clashes between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson .

Between 1867 and 1869, Edmund Cooper served as assistant treasury secretary for the federal government. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on July 21, 1911 in Shelbyville, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Edmund Cooper in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edmund Cooper in the database of Find a Grave (English)