Myers Y. Cooper

Myers Young Cooper ( * November 25, 1873 in St. Louisville, Ohio; † December 6, 1958 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) was an American politician and from 1929 to 1931 the 51st Governor of the State of Ohio.

Early years

Born on a farm in Licking County Cooper studied at the Lebanon Normal University in Ohio. Then he went into a Cincinnati into real estate. Later he expanded his business activities to other areas such as housing construction, the timber trade and coal mining.

Political career

Myers Cooper was a member of the Republican Party, he briefly left between 1912-1916, to join the so-called Bull Moose Movement by Theodore Roosevelt. But in 1916 he returned to the Republicans. For eleven years, was president of the Cooper Union of exhibitors from Ohio. He also served as president of a joint Council of the various churches in his home state. Cooper was several times a delegate to the federal and state party conventions of his party since 1916. In 1928 he was elected governor of his state, where he prevailed with 54.8 percent of the vote to Democrat Martin Davey.

Cooper began his two -year term on 14 January 1929. He used a good relationship with the legislature, which was helped by his governance. In his time the control of utilities has been improved, as well as the choice and the banking laws. Also, the road traffic law was adapted to the higher volume of traffic. Cooper also took care of the environment and the natural resources of his state. The second part of his tenure was overshadowed by the consequences of the New York stock market crash of October 1929. The now incipient global economic crisis also sought Ohio home. In 1930 Governor Cooper competed unsuccessfully for re-election. Therefore, he had to resign from his post on 12 January 1931.

Further CV

In the gubernatorial election of 1932, Cooper had already failed in the primaries. Between 1938 and 1941 he was chairman of a commission of the real estate dealers who dealt with the taxation of their trade. In addition, he still held a variety of other functions. Myers Cooper died in December 1958. He was married to Martha Kinney, with whom he had two children.