Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....COOPER, HENRY ALLEN 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Green, Kenosha,
Lafayette, Racine, Rock and Walworth Counties.
Population in 1900 — 191,491.

HENRY ALLEN COOPER (Rep.), of Racine, was born in Walworth
county, Wis.; 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; re-elected without opposition in 1882 and
1884 ; state senator in 1886 ; was elected member of
Congress in 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898 and again in 1902,
receiving 20,437 votes against 12,122 for Lewis C. Baker
(Dem.) and 1,111 for Thos. W. North (Pro.).

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Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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