Edmund Cooper was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Tennessee

Tennessee

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, brother of Henry Cooper

Henry Cooper

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Biography

Born in Franklin, Tennessee

Franklin, Tennessee

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, Cooper was graduated from Jackson (Tennessee) College in 1839.
He studied law at Harvard University

Harvard University

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He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced practice in Shelbyville, Tennessee

Shelbyville, Tennessee

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, in 1841.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1849.
He served as presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860.
Union delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1861.

Cooper was again elected to the State house of representatives but in 1865 resigned.
Upon the readmission of the State of Tennessee to representation Cooper was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-ninth

39th United States Congress

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 Congress and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1867.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fortieth

40th United States Congress

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Congress.
He was appointed by President Johnson Assistant Secretary of the Treasury November 20, 1867, and served until March 20, 1869.
He resumed the practice of law at Shelbyville and died there July 21, 1911.
He was interred in Willow Mount Cemetery.

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