Henry Cooper (politician)

Henry Cooper

Henry Cooper (* 22. April 1827 in Columbia , Maury County , Tennessee , †  4. February 1884 in Tierra Blanca, Chihuahua , Mexico ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party .

Henry Cooper received his education at Dixon Academy , a private school in Shelbyville . He later studied at Jackson College in Jackson and graduated there in 1847. After successfully completing his law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1850.

The Democrat Cooper first moved into the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1853 and stayed there until 1855; another term in Nashville followed from 1857 to 1859. In politics he subsequently took a break after he was appointed judge of the former 7th District Court of Tennessee in April 1862 . He resigned from this position in January 1866 to move to Lebanon , where he worked as a professor at the Cumberland School of Law .

Cooper returned to Nashville in 1867, and into politics two years later when he was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1869 to 1870 . He was finally elected to the US Senate in 1870 by the legislature in his home state . After a six-year term in office, he did not apply for re-election and left the Senate on March 3, 1877.

Henry Cooper went into the mining business in Mexico after the end of his political career . He was murdered by bandits on February 4, 1884 in the city of Tierra Blanca, Chihuahua state .

His brother Edmund Cooper was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867 and US Deputy Treasury Secretary from 1867 to 1869 .

Web links

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