Allen F. Cooper Explained

Allen Foster Cooper
State:Pennsylvania
District:23rd
Term Start:March 4, 1903
Term End:March 3, 1911
Preceded:William H. Graham
Succeeded:Thomas S. Crago
Birth Date:16 June 1862
Birth Place:Franklin Township, Pennsylvania
Party:Republican
Alma Mater:Mount Union College
University of Michigan Law School

Allen Foster Cooper (June 16, 1862 – April 20, 1917)[1] [2] was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Allen Foster Cooper was born in Franklin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Normal School in California, Pennsylvania in 1881. He attended Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, in 1883. After this he taught for six years in public schools.

Cooper graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and commenced practice in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Cooper was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. After his time in Congress, he resumed business and the practice of law in Uniontown.

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=NJhAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA458 Hart's History and Directory of the Three Towns, Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville
  2. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/15365156/ S. A. F. COOPER PASSES AWAY