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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJere COOPER
(1893-1957)
COOPER, Jere, a
Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Dyersburg, Dyer
County, Tenn., July 20, 1893; attended the public schools; was
graduated from the law department of Cumberland University,
Lebanon, Tenn., in 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and
commenced practice in Dyersburg, Tenn.; in 1917 enlisted in the
Second Tennessee Infantry, National Guard and was commissioned a
first lieutenant; transferred with his company to Company K, One
Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry, Thirtieth Division, and served in
France and Belgium; on July 9, 1918, was promoted to captain and
served as regimental adjutant until discharged from the Army on
April 2, 1919; after the war resumed the practice of law in
Dyersburg, Tenn.; member of city council and city attorney
1920-1928; elected State commander of the American Legion of
Tennessee in 1921; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and
to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1929, until his death in Bethesda, Md., December 18, 1957;
chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Eighty-fourth and
Eighty-fifth Congresses), Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation (Eighty-fifth Congress); interment in Fairview Cemetery,
Dyersburg, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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