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"Jere Cooper (July 20, 1893 - December 18, 1957) was a Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee. Biography Cooper was born on a farm near Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee, son of Joseph W. and Viola May (Cooper) Cooper. He attended public schools and then was graduated from the Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1914. He was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Dyersburg, Tennessee. He married Mary Rankley in December 1930; the couple had one son, Leon Jere Cooper, who died as a child. Career Upon the U.S. entry into World War I in 1917, Cooper enlisted in the Second Tennessee Infantry, National Guard, and was commissioned a First Lieutenant. Later he was transferred, with his company, to Co K, 119th Infantry, Thirtieth Division, and served in France and Belgium. On July 9, 1918, he was promoted to Captain and served as regimental adjutant until discharged from the Army on April 2, 1919. After the war he resumed the practice of law in Dyersburg. Cooper was a member of the city council and city attorney from 1920 to 1928, and was elected Department Commander of the American Legion of Tennessee in 1921. Elected as a Democrat to the 71st, and to the fourteen succeeding, Congresses, Cooper served from March 4, 1929, until his death. He served as chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means (84th and 85th Congresses), and on the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-fifth Congress). He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Death Cooper died in Bethesda, Maryland, on December 18, 1957 (age 64 years, 151 days). He is interred at Fairview Cemetery, Dyersburg, Tennessee. See also * List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) ReferencesExternal links Retrieved on 2008-02-10 * Category:1893 births Category:1957 deaths Category:American military personnel of World War I Category:American Presbyterians Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Category:Tennessee Democrats Category:United States Army officers Category:Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:20th-century American politicians Category:People from Dyer County, Tennessee Category:People who died in office "
"Frederic René Coudert Jr. (May 7, 1898 – May 21, 1972) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1947 to 1959 though better known for his role in New York's Rapp-Coudert Committee. Background Coudert was born in New York City on May 7, 1898. He attended the Browning and Morristown Schools in New York City, then graduated from Columbia University in 1918. He joined the Army for World War I, and served as a First Lieutenant in the 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, with overseas service, in 1917 and 1918. Coudert graduated from Columbia Law School in 1922, was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in New York City. He served as an assistant United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1924 and 1925. Politics Coudert was unsuccessful as a Republican candidate for district attorney of New York County in 1929, but was a delegate to the Republican State conventions from 1930 to 1948 and the Republican National Conventions from 1936 to 1948. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1939 to 1946, sitting in the 162nd, 163rd, 164th and 165th New York State Legislatures. He was elected as a Republican to the 80th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959. Coudert voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Post-congressional career He continued his practice of law in New York City, and was also a member of the State Commission on Governmental Operations of New York City from 1959 to 1961. Coudert was an outspoken conservative and endorsed William F. Buckley's 1965 Conservative campaign for the New York City mayoralty over liberal Republican Congressman John Lindsay. Retirement and death He retired due to ill health, and died in New York City on May 21, 1972. He is buried at Memorial Cemetery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Family In 1923 he married the sculptor Mary Callery. They had one daughter. The marriage had ended in divorce by 1930. He married Paula Murray on October 27, 1931, in New York City. He had two children in his second marriage. See also * Frederic René Coudert Sr. * Rapp-Coudert Committee * Lusk Committee ReferencesExternal links Category:1898 births Category:1972 deaths Category:American military personnel of World War I Category:Columbia Law School alumni Category:New York (state) Republicans Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Category:New York (state) state senators Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:20th-century American politicians Category:Morristown-Beard School alumni Category:Browning School alumni Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni "