Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....COOPER, HENRY ALLEN
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE SIXTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.

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 of 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, 1906 and again in 1908 receiving
26,728 votes against 14,018 for H. A. Moehlenpah (Dem.),
1,791 for W. A. Jacobs (Soc. Dem.) and 1,576 for J. H.
Berkey (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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