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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaMark Anthony COOPER
(1800-1885)
COOPER, Mark Anthony,
(cousin of Eugenius Aristides Nisbet), a Representative from
Georgia; born near Powellton, Hancock County, Ga., on April 20,
1800; graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of
South Carolina) at Columbia in 1819; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Eatonton, Putnam County,
Ga.; moved to Columbus, Ga.; served in the campaign against the
Seminole Indians in Florida in 1825, and again in 1836; member of
the Georgia state house of representatives in 1833; elected as a
Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh
Congress but was later elected as a Democrat to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of William C. Dawson; reelected as a
Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served from January 3,
1842, to June 26, 1843, when he resigned to become a candidate for
Governor, but was unsuccessful; president of the Etowah
Manufacturing & Mining Co. of Etowah, Ga., in 1859; died at his
home, “Glen Holly,” near Cartersville, Bartow County,
Ga., March 17, 1885; interment on his estate.
Bibliography
Pope, Mark Cooper, and J. Donald McKee. Mark Anthony Cooper: The
Iron Man of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.: Graphic Publishing Co.,
2000.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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