Henry Allen Cooper
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1921 – March 1, 1931 |
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| Preceded by | Clifford Ellsworth Randall |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Ryum Amlie |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1919 |
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| Preceded by | Clinton Babbitt |
| Succeeded by | Clifford Ellsworth Randall |
| Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the Racine County district |
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In office 1887–1889 |
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| Born | September 8, 1850 Spring Prairie, Wisconsin |
| Died | March 1, 1931 (aged 80) Washington D.C. |
| Resting place | Racine, Wisconsin |
| Political party | Republican |
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Progressive |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Committees | Insular Affairs, Rivers and Harbors |
Henry Allen Cooper (September 8, 1850 – March 1, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Cooper was born in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, son of former Free Soil Party Assemblyman Joel H. Cooper, a physician. In 1851 the family moved to Burlington, Wisconsin. Their house was a station of the Underground Railroad, and in 1852 sheltered fugitive slave Joshua Cooper on his way to Canada. Henry Cooper graduated from Burlington High School in June 1869. After school, Cooper attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and graduated in 1873. He then attended Union College of Law, then the legal faculty of Northwestern University and graduated there in 1875. He was then admitted to the bar, practiced in Chicago until 1879 and then commenced practice at Burlington.
Cooper was elected District Attorney of Racine County in November 1880 and moved to Racine in January 1881. In 1882 and 1884 he was reelected as District Attorney without opposition.
In 1884, Cooper served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, a tradition he would continue in 1908 and 1924. He was subsequently elected to District 3 of the Wisconsin State Senate for the term 1887 to 1889 and authored a bill to introduce the secret ballot in Wisconsin. In 1890 Cooper unsuccessfully ran for election to the fifty-second Congress.
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