William Cooper (judge)

William Cooper

William Cooper (born December 2, 1754 in Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , †  December 22, 1809 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1795 and 1801 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives twice . His son was the writer James Fenimore Cooper .

Career

Until 1789 William Cooper lived in Burlington ( New Jersey ), where he worked as a shopkeeper. Then he moved to Otsego County, New York State, and founded the city of Cooperstown there . He also worked larger lands. In 1791, he was appointed Otsego County Appellate Judge. In the 1790s he joined the then of Alexander Hamilton founded the Federalist party to.

In the congressional elections of 1794 , Cooper was elected in the tenth constituency of New York in the US House of Representatives, which was then still in Philadelphia , where he succeeded Silas Talbot on March 4, 1795 . Until March 3, 1797 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . In 1798 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the tenth district of his state, where he replaced James Cochran on March 4, 1799 , who had been his successor two years earlier. By March 3, 1801, Cooper could spend another term in Congress. During this time, the new federal capital Washington, DC was moved. William Cooper died in Albany on December 22, 1809.

literature

• Alan Taylor : William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic (1996, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. )

Web links

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Silas Talbot	United States House Representative for New York (10th Constituency) March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1797	James Cochran
James Cochran	United States House Representative for New York (10th constituency) March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1891	Thomas Morris