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Senate Years of Service: 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973 Party: Republican; Republican; Republican
COOPER, John Sherman, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky.,
August 23, 1901; attended the public schools at Somerset and Centre College,
Danville, Ky.; graduated from Yale College 1923; attended Harvard Law School
1923-1925; admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Somerset, Ky.;
member, Kentucky house of representatives 1928-1930; judge of Pulaski County,
Ky., 1930-1938; member of the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky
1935-1946; served during the Second World War in the United States Army
1942-1946, attaining the rank of captain; elected circuit judge of the
twenty-eighth judicial district of Kentucky in 1945 and served until his
resignation in November 1946; elected on November 5, 1946, as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Albert B. Chandler and served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; resumed the practice of law;
delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949 and alternate
delegate in 1950 and 1951; served as adviser to the Secretary of State at the
London and Brussels meetings of the Council of Ministers of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization in 1950; elected on November 4, 1952, as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M.
Chapman and served from November 5, 1952, to January 3, 1955; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1954; Ambassador to India and Nepal 1955-1956;
delegate, United Nations General Assembly 1968; elected on November 6, 1956, as
a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Alben W. Barkley; reelected in 1960, and again in 1966, and served
from November 7, 1956, to January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection
in 1972; Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic 1974-1976; resumed the
practice of law in Washington, D.C., and was a resident of Somerset, Ky., and
Washington, D.C., until his death in Washington, D.C., February 21, 1991;
interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Mitchiner, Clarice J.
Senator John Sherman Cooper. New York: Arno Press, 1982;
Schulman, Robert.
John Sherman Cooper-The Global Kentuckian. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 1976.
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