Samuel B. Cooper

Samuel Bronson Cooper ( * May 30, 1850 in Eddyville, Caldwell County, Kentucky; † August 21, 1918 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1909 he represented two times the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his year of birth Samuel Cooper moved with his parents to Woodville, Texas, where he later attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1871 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in 1872 to work in Woodville in this profession. Between 1876 and 1880 he was a prosecutor in the local Tyler County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1880 to 1884 he sat in the Senate of Texas. Between 1885 and 1888 he headed the tax authority in the first financial district of that State. In 1888 he applied unsuccessfully for the post of judge.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Cooper was in the second electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John B. Long on March 4, 1893. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 six legislative periods. In this time of the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell. In 1904, Cooper lost against Moses L. Broocks. In the 1906 elections, he was re-elected in the second district of his state in Congress, where he Broocks replaced again on March 4, 1907. Until March 3, 1909, he could spend another term in Congress. In 1908, he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1910, he was a member of the advisory committee of the Port Authority of New York in the year. He is also passed on 21 August 1918. He was buried in Beaumont.