Jim Cooper
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Clement |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Al Gore |
| Succeeded by | Van Hilleary |
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James Hayes Shofner Cooper June 19, 1954 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Hayes |
| Children | 3 |
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Oriel College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (JD) |
James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooper (born June 19, 1954) is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district (based in Nashville), serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Blue Dog Coalition. He previously represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995.
Cooper was born in Nashville and raised in Shelbyville, Tennessee. He is the son of former governor Prentice Cooper and his wife Hortense. His paternal grandfather, William Prentice Cooper, served as the mayor of Shelbyville and Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Cooper attended the Episcopal boys' boarding school Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity, a recipient of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship, and earned a B.A. in history and economics. Cooper won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, where he was a member of Oriel College and earned a B.A./M.A. in politics and economics in 1977. In 1980, he received a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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