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Jere Cooper (July 20, 1893 – December 18, 1957) was a Democratic
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from Tennessee.


Biography

Cooper was born on a
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near Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee, son of Joseph W. and Viola May (Cooper) Cooper. He attended public schools and then was graduated from the
Cumberland School of Law The Cumberland School of Law is an American Bar Association, ABA-accredited law school at Samford University in Homewood, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1847 at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee and is the 11th oldest law sch ...
in
Lebanon, Tennessee Lebanon ( ) is the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,431 at the 2020 census. Lebanon is located in Middle Tennessee, approximately east of downtown Nashville. Lebanon is part of the Nashville Metro ...
, in 1914. He was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Dyersburg, Tennessee. He married Mary Rankley in December 1930; the couple had one son, Leon Jere Cooper, who died as a child.


Career

Upon the
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entry into
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in 1917, Cooper enlisted in the Second Tennessee Infantry,
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, and was commissioned a
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. Later he was transferred, with his company, to Co K, 119th Infantry, Thirtieth Division, and served in
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and
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. On July 9, 1918, he was promoted to
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and served as
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al
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until discharged from the army on April 2, 1919. After the war he resumed the practice of law in Dyersburg. Cooper was a member of the
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and city attorney from 1920 to 1928, and was elected department commander of the
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of Tennessee in 1921. Elected as a Democrat to the 71st, and to the fourteen succeeding,
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es, Cooper served from March 4, 1929, until his death. He served as chairman of the
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( 84th and 85th Congresses), and on the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-fifth Congress). He was a signatory to the 1956
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that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in ''
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''.


Death

Cooper died in
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, on December 18, 1957 (age 64 years, 151 days). He is interred at Fairview Cemetery, Dyersburg, Tennessee.


See also

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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) There are several lists of United States Congress members who died in office. These include: *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–1949) *List ...


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Retrieved on 2008-02-10 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Jere 1893 births 1957 deaths United States Army personnel of World War I American Presbyterians United States Army officers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee People from Dyer County, Tennessee Signatories of the Southern Manifesto 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives