Biographical Sketches:  Henry Allen Cooper


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 722.

REPRESENTATIVES FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 

Kenosha, Racine, Walworth, Rock, Green and Lafayette counties.
Population in 1900-191,491. 

HENRY ALLEN COOPER (Rep.), of Racine, was born In Walworth county,
Wis.; received a common school and collegiate education, graduating at
the Northwestern University in 1873, and from the Union College of Law
in 1875; is by profession a lawyer; resided in Chicago from 1873 to
1879; otherwise has always resided In Wisconsin; began practice in
Burlington, Racine county, in 1879; In 1880 was elected district
attorney; re-elected without opposition in 1882 and 1884; delegate to
National republican convention in 1884; state senator in 1886; was
elected member of Congress in 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898 and again in
1900, receiving 28,256 votes against 14,556 for Gilbert T. Hodges
(Dem.). Cooper's plurality, 13,700.