Harold D. Cooley

Harold D. Cooley (1955)

Harold Dunbar Cooley (born July 26, 1897 in Nashville , Nash County , North Carolina , † January 15, 1974 in Wilson , North Carolina) was an American politician . He represented the state of North Carolina as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harold Cooley was born in Nashville where he attended public school. He then went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Later he graduated from the Law School of Yale University in New Haven ( Connecticut ). He then worked as a lawyer in his own practice. During the First World War , he served in the Naval Aviation Flying Corps in 1918 . As a delegate to the inter-parliamentary conference , he traveled to Cairo in 1947 and to Rome in 1948 . He was also the President of the American Group for two four-year terms.

politics

Cooley was elected Democrat to the 73rd Congress in an extraordinary election to replace the late MP Edward W. Pou . He was then re-elected sixteen times to Congress and remained there until his resignation on December 30, 1966. His term of office ran from July 7, 1934 to December 30, 1966. He ran again in 1966 for the 90th Congress, but failed but.

During his tenure in Congress, he was Chairman of the Agriculture Committee (81st, 82nd, 84th to 89th Congress). He also refused in 1956 to sign the Southern Manifesto , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

Harold Cooley died on January 15, 1974 in Wilson. He was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Nashville.

Web links

• Harold D. Cooley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Short biography and index of the written estate of Harold Cooley in the Southern Historical Collection of the UNC-Chapel Hill
• Cooley’s parliamentary activities at www.fff.org