Charles Merian Cooper

Charles Merian Cooper

Charles Merian Cooper (January 16, 1856 – November 14, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.

Born in Athens, Georgia, Cooper moved with his parents to Florida in 1864. He pursued academic studies at Gainesville Academy. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in St. Augustine, Florida. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1880. He served in the State senate in 1884, and as the Florida Attorney General from 1885-1889. He was appointed in 1889 one of the three commissioners to revise the statutes of the State.

Cooper was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897). He was not a candidate for renomination. He resumed the practice of law in Jacksonville, Florida, until his death there November 14, 1923. He was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery.

References

• Charles Merian Cooper at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida Territory Hernández Call White Downing Levy At-large Cabell Brockenbrough Cabell Maxwell Hawkins Hamilton Walls Niblack Purman and Walls (concurrent) L'Engle Sears Green 1st district Purman Davidson Mallory Sparkman Drane Peterson McMullen Campbell Cramer Sikes Hutto Scarborough Miller 2nd district Walls Finley Bisbee Finley Hull Bisbee Finley Bisbee Dougherty Bullock Cooper Davis Clark Green Price Bennett Fuqua Grant Peterson Boyd Southerland Graham 3rd district Lamar Mays Wilson Kehoe Smithwick Yon Caldwell Sikes Pepper Bennett Brown Yoho 4th district Sears Owen Wilcox Cannon Smathers Lantaff Fascell Herlong Chappell James Fowler Crenshaw 5th district Hendricks Herlong Gurney Frey Gunter Kelly McCollum Thurman Brown-Waite Nugent Brown 6th district D. Rogers P. Rogers Gibbons Young MacKay Stearns DeSantis 7th district Haley Gibbons Mica 8th district Matthews Cramer Young Haley Ireland Young McCollum Keller Grayson Webster Posey 9th district Fuqua Rogers Frey Nelson M. Bilirakis G. Bilirakis Grayson 10th district Gibbons Burke Bafalis Ireland Young Webster 11th district Gurney Pepper Rogers Mica Nelson Bacchus Gibbons Davis Castor Nugent 12th district Cramer Fascell Burke Stack Shaw Lewis Canady Putnam Ross Bilirakis 13th district Lehman Mack Goss Miller Harris Buchanan Young Jolly 14th district Pepper Mica Johnston Goss Mack Castor 15th district Fascell Shaw Bacchus Weldon Posey Ross 16th district Smith Lewis Foley Mahoney Rooney Buchanan 17th district Lehman C. Meek K. Meek Wilson Rooney 18th district Pepper Ros-Lehtinen Murphy 19th district Fascell Johnston Wexler Deutch Radel Clawson 20th district Deutsch Wasserman Schultz Hastings 21st district L. Diaz-Balart M. Diaz-Balart Deutch 22nd district Shaw Klein West Frankel 23rd district Hastings Wasserman Schultz 24th district Feeney Kosmas Adams Wilson 25th district Diaz-Balart Rivera Diaz-Balart 26th district Garcia Curbelo 27th district Ros-Lehtinen

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