Mark Anthony Cooper

Mark Anthony Cooper

Mark Anthony Cooper (born April 20, 1800 in Powelton , Hancock County , Georgia , †  March 17, 1885 in Cartersville , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1843 he twice represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mark Cooper was a cousin of Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871), who was at the same time as Cooper between 1839 and 1843 Congressman for Georgia. He studied at South Carolina College , now the University of South Carolina at Columbia , until 1819 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1821, he began to work in his new profession in Eatonton . He later moved to Columbus . In 1825 and 1836 he took part in two Indian wars. Politically, he first became a member of the Whig Party . In 1833 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representativeselected. There he campaigned for railroad construction in Georgia.

In the congressional election of 1838 Cooper was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1839. Since he was not confirmed in the elections of 1840, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1841 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Cooper joined the Democratic Party . As their candidate, he was elected after the resignation of the MP William Crosby Dawson to his successor in the House of Representatives, where he took up his mandate on January 3, 1842. He was re-elected in the regular elections of 1842. But he resigned on June 26, 1843, because he was running for the office of governor of Georgia. However, this candidacy was unsuccessful.

In the following years he built up the Etowah Manufacturing & Mining Co. , which mainly comprised iron works. It was then that he was nicknamed "Iron Man of Georgia". The quality of his products was very high. During the Civil War, the ironworks supplied the Confederate Army with armaments. Both the ironworks and the city of Etowah were burned and never rebuilt by Union forces under General William T. Sherman at the end of the war . Cooper suffered no losses because the plants had previously been bought by the Confederate government. He retired to his estate "Glen Holly" near Cartersville, where he died on March 17, 1885.

Web links

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

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