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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHenry COOPER
(1827-1884)
Senate Years of Service:
1871-1877Party: DemocratCOOPER, Henry, (brother of
Edmund Cooper), a Senator from Tennessee; born in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., on August 22, 1827; attended Dixon Academy,
Shelbyville, Tenn., and graduated from Jackson (Tenn.) College in
1847; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced
practice in Shelbyville; member, State house of representatives
1853-1855, 1857-1859; appointed judge of the seventh judicial
circuit of Tennessee in April 1862 and resigned in January 1866;
professor in the law school at Lebanon, Tenn. 1866-1867; moved to
Nashville where he resumed the practice of law; member, State
senate 1869-1870; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate
and served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1876; was killed by bandits in Tierra
Blanca, Guadelupe y Calvo, Mexico, on February 4, 1884, where he
was engaged in mining operations; interment in Tierra Blanca.
Bibliography
McKellar, Kenneth. “Henry Cooper,” in Tennessee
Senators as seen by one of their Successors. Kingsport, Tenn.:
Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 352-357.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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