Duncan Brown Cooper
| Duncan Brown Cooper | |
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Cooper, c. 1908
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| Born | 1844 Columbia, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | 1922 |
| Resting place | Zion Presbyterian Church |
| Residence | Riverwood |
| Occupation | Journalist, politician |
| Spouse(s) | Florence Fleming Mary Polk Jones |
| Children | 8 |
| Parent(s) | Matthew Delamere Cooper Marian Witherspoon Brown |
| Relatives |
William Frierson Cooper (half-brother) Lucius E. Burch (brother-in-law) Lucius E. Burch, Jr. (nephew) |
Duncan Brown Cooper (1844–1922) was an American journalist, publisher and Democratic politician. He served both in the Tennessee House of Representatives and in the Tennessee Senate.
He was born at "Mulberry Hill" near Columbia in Maury County, Tennessee in 1844. His father was Matthew Delamere Cooper (1792–1878) and his mother, Marian Witherspoon (Brown) Cooper (1822–1861), who was his father's third wife. His half-brother was Judge William Frierson Cooper (1820–1909), a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court who owned the Riverwood Mansion. His sister Sarah married Dr. Lucius Burch, a Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Their son, Lucius E. Burch, Jr., was his nephew. He attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, now known as Washington & Jefferson College.
During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he fought in the Confederate States Army. He was captured at Fort Donelson.
After the war, he was elected a Democratic state representative in 1881 and state senator in 1895. He was also the publisher of the Nashville American, a conservative Democratic daily newspaper. He worked on the gubernatorial campaign of Malcolm R. Patterson, who went on to serve as Governor of Tennessee from 1907 to 1911. Both Cooper and Patterson were opposed to prohibition. His gubernatorial opponent, Edward W. Carmack, who was the editor of The Tennessean, grew embittered and published scathing articles about Cooper.
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