Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....COOPER, HENRY ALLEN September 8, 1850 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 10, 2007, 4:08 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. REPRESENTATIVES FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth and Waukesha counties. HENRY ALLEN COOPER (Rep.) of Racine, was born at Spring Prairie, Walworth county, Sept. 8, 1850; graduated from Northwestern University in 1873, and from Union College of Law, Chicago (Now Law School of Northwestern 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 1884; state senator in 1886. He was author of the law which first established the Australian ballot system in Wisconsin. He was elected representative in congress in 1892-94-96-98, 1900-02-04-06-08-10-12-14-16-20-22. Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598- 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/cooper6bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb