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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyCOOPER, John Sherman
(1901—1991)
Senate Years of Service:
1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973
Party:
Republican; Republican; Republican
COOPER, John Sherman, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., August 23, 1901; attended the public schools at Somerset and Centre College, Danville, Ky.; graduated from Yale College 1923; attended Harvard Law School 1923-1925; admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Somerset, Ky.; member, Kentucky house of representatives 1928-1930; judge of Pulaski County, Ky., 1930-1938; member of the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky 1935-1946; served during the Second World War in the United States Army 1942-1946, attaining the rank of captain; elected circuit judge of the twenty-eighth judicial district of Kentucky in 1945 and served until his resignation in November 1946; elected on November 5, 1946, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert B. Chandler and served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949 and alternate delegate in 1950 and 1951; served as adviser to the Secretary of State at the London and Brussels meetings of the Council of Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1950; elected on November 4, 1952, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M. Chapman and served from November 5, 1952, to January 3, 1955; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954; Ambassador to India and Nepal 1955-1956; delegate, United Nations General Assembly 1968; elected on November 6, 1956, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben W. Barkley; reelected in 1960, and again in 1966, and served from November 7, 1956, to January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972; Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic 1974-1976; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and was a resident of Somerset, Ky., and Washington, D.C., until his death in Washington, D.C., February 21, 1991; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
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; Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
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. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1976.
Birdwhistell, Terry L. “An Interview with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on John Sherman Cooper.” Kentucky Review
10 (Summer 1990): 11-21.
Cooper, William, Jr. “John Sherman Cooper: A Senator and His Constituents.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
84 (Spring 1986): 192-210.
Finch, Glenn. “The Election of United States Senators in Kentucky: The Cooper Period.” Filson Club History Quarterly
46 (April 1972): 161-78.
Franklin, Douglas A. “The Politician as Diplomat: Kentucky’s John Sherman Cooper in India, 1955-1956.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
82 (Winter 1984): 28-59.
Mitchner, Clarice James. Senator John Sherman Cooper: Consummate Statesman
. New York: Arno Press, 1982.
Schulman, Robert. John Sherman Cooper: The Global Kentuckian
. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1976.
Smoot, Richard C. “John Sherman Cooper: The Early Years, 1901-1927.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
93 SPring 1995): 133-58.
___. “John Sherman Cooper: The Paradox of a Liberal Republican in Kentucky Politics.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1988.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Tributes to the Honorable John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky in the United States Senate Upon the Occasion of his Retirement from the Senate
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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