Thomas Buchecker Cooper (December 29, 1823 – April 4, 1862) was a
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania.
Thomas B. Cooper was born in
Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and
Pennsylvania College at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the
medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia in 1843 and commenced
practice
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in Coopersburg.
Cooper was elected as a
Democrat
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to the
Thirty-seventh Congress and served until his death in Coopersburg in 1862. Interment is in Woodland Cemetery.
See also
*
Sources
The Political Graveyard
External links
* – Grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Pennsylvania
* –
Cenotaph at the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
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1823 births
1862 deaths
People from Coopersburg, Pennsylvania
Physicians from Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American legislators