Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Cooper, Henry Allen 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

HENRY ALLEN COOPER (Rep.), of Racine, Wis., was born in  Walworth county, 
Wisconsin; received a common school and collegiate education graduating at the 
Northwestern University in 1873, and from the Union College of Law in 1875; is 
by profession a lawyer; resided in Chicago from 1873 to 1879; otherwise has 
always resided in Wisconsin; began practice in Burlington, Racine county in 
1879; in 1880 was elected district attorney; reelected without opposition in 
1882 and 1884; delegate to National republican convention in 1884; state 
senator in 1886; was elected member of the Fifty-third Congress in 1892. In 
1894 he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress, receiving 21,972 votes, 
against 12, --- for Andrew Kull, democrat; 2,828 for Hamilton Utley, people’s; 
and 1,615 for A. S. Kaye, prohibitionist. In 1896 he was elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress  receiving 28,235 votes, against 14,723 for Jeremiah L. Mahoney, 
democrat, and 84 for George W. White, prohibitionist.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

REPRESENTATIVES.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Kenosha, Racine, Walworth, Rock, Green and Lafayette counties. Population
in 1895 --  181,142.


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