Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....COOPER, HENRY ALLEN
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES.

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

HENRY ALLEN COOPER (Rep.), of Racine, was born at Spring
Prairie, Walworth county, Wisconsin, September 8, 1850;
graduated from Northwestern University in 1873, and from
Union College of Law, Chicago (now Law School of N. W.
University) in 1875; is by profession a lawyer;
resided In Chicago from 1873 to 1879; otherwise has always
lived In Wisconsin; in 1880 was elected district attorney
of Racine county, and re-elected without opposition in
1882 and in 1884; state senator in 1885; author of the
law which first established the Australian ballot system
in Wisconsin; was elected representative in Congress in
1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 and again in 1904
receiving 25,125 votes against 13,379 for Calvin Stewart
(Dem.) and 1,235 for Henry II. Tubbs (Pro.) and 2,401 for
Jacob W. Born (Soc. Dem.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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