Cooper was the representative for Tennessee’s 8th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1953 to 1958.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1943 to 1952; the representative for Tennessee’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from 1933 to 1942; the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1931 to 1933; and the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1929 to 1931.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1929 to Aug 1957, Cooper missed 22 of 2,519 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1957. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
