Thomas Buchecker Cooper

Thomas Beechnut Cooper ( born December 29, 1823 in Coopersburg, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, † April 4, 1862 ) was an American politician. In the years 1861 and 1862 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Cooper attended the public schools of his home and then the Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg. After a subsequent study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his 1843 was admitted as a doctor, he started in Coopersburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1860 Cooper was in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Henry Clay Longnecker March 4, 1861. He could exercise his mandate in Congress until his death on April 4, 1862. This period was marked by the events of the Civil War.