Allen Foster Cooper (June 16, 1862 – April 20, 1917)S. A. F. COOPER PASSES AWAY
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member of the

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from

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. Allen Foster Cooper was born in

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. He graduated from the State Normal School in California, Pennsylvania in 1881. He attended

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in Alliance, Ohio, in 1883. After this he taught for six years in public schools. Cooper graduated from the

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department of the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and commenced practice in

Uniontown, Pennsylvania Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Pittsburgh and part of the Greater Pittsburgh Region. The population was 10,372 at the 2010 census, down from 12,422 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat and ...

. Cooper was elected as a

to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. After his time in Congress, he resumed business and the practice of law in Uniontown.

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