Allen Foster Cooper

Allen Foster Cooper ( born June 16, 1862 in Franklin, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † April 20, 1917 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1911 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Allen Cooper attended the public schools of his home and then to 1882, the State Normal School in California. Anschließens he graduated in 1883, the Mount Union College in Alliance (Ohio ). Subsequently, he taught as a teacher. After studying law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his were made in December 1888 admitted to the bar he began in Uniontown to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Cooper was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Harrison Graham on March 4, 1903. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 four legislative sessions. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Cooper practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 20, 1917 in Uniontown, where he was also buried.