William Cooper (judge)

William Cooper ( born December 2, 1754 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † December 22, 1809 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1795 and 1801 he represented two-time New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives. His son was the writer James Fenimore Cooper.

Career

By 1789 William Cooper lived in Burlington ( New Jersey ), where he worked as a shopkeeper. Then he moved to the Otsego County in New York State and founded the city of Cooperstown. He also managed large estates. In 1791 he was appointed Judge of Appeal in Otsego County. In the 1790s he joined the then founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1794 Cooper was selected in the tenth electoral district of New York at the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Silas Talbot on March 4, 1795. Until March 3, 1797 he was initially able to complete a term in Congress. In 1798 he was elected again in the tenth district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced James Cochran on March 4, 1799 was there two years earlier become his successor. By March 3, 1801 Cooper was able to spend another term in Congress. During this time, the new federal capital of Washington DC was related. William Cooper died on December 22, 1809 in Albany.