Charles Merian Cooper

Charles Merian Cooper ( born January 16, 1856 in Athens, Georgia, † November 14, 1923 in Jacksonville, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1864, Charles Cooper came with his parents to Florida, where he attended the Gainesville Academy. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1877 admitted to the bar he began in St. Augustine to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1880, Cooper was elected to the House of Representatives from Florida. Four years later he was a member of the State Senate. Between 1885 and 1889 he practiced as a successor to George P. Raney from the Office of the Attorney General of Florida. 1889 Cooper became a member of a three-member Commission, the revised statutes of the state.

In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the second electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Bullock on March 4, 1893. After a re-election in 1894 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. 1896 renounced Charles Cooper to a new Congress candidacy. In the following years he practiced law in Jacksonville. He is also passed on 14 November 1923.

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