Biographical Sketches:  HENRY ALLEN COOPER


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1116

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 1886; 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, 1904 and again in
1906, receiving 16,226 votes against 8,818 for John J. Cunningham
(Dem.) and 1,504 for Moses Hull (Soc. Dem.).