James Ewing Cooley (1802 – August 19, 1882 Bagni di Lucca, Italy) was a New York City bookseller, auctioneer and politician. He served in the New York State Senate for the First District in the session of 1852, and served on the advisory board which planned

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. He was married in 1833 to Maria Louisa Appleton, the daughter of publisher

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. Starting around that time under the firm name Cooley & Bangs, afterwards Cooley, Keese & Hill, he conducted the semi-annual New York City book trade sales at his auction rooms, in later years in conjunction with his son-in-law George Ayres Leavitt, who took over the business in 1866. He was the author of ''The American in Egypt: with Rambles Through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, During the Years 1839 and 1840'' (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1842). He died in 1882 at the

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, Italy, where he had been residing for several years."Obituary: The Hon. James E. Cooley," ''The Churchman'', Sept. 9, 1882, p. 291.

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1802 births 1882 deaths New York (state) state senators Politicians from New York City Businesspeople from New York City American booksellers American auctioneers 19th-century American businesspeople American expatriates in Italy 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature {{NewYork-NYSenate-stub