Allen F. Cooper

{{Short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Allen Foster Cooper

| image = Allen Foster Cooper (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg

| caption = Myersdale Republican (Myersdale, Pennsylvania), September 25, 1902

| state = Pennsylvania

| district = 23rd

| term_start = March 4, 1903

| term_end = March 3, 1911

| preceded = William H. Graham

| succeeded = Thomas S. Crago

| birth_date = {{birth date|1862|6|16}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1917|4|20|1862|6|16}}

| birth_place = Franklin Township, Pennsylvania

| party = Republican

| alma_mater = Mount Union College
University of Michigan Law School

}}

Allen Foster Cooper (June 16, 1862 – April 20, 1917)[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJhAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA458 Hart's History and Directory of the Three Towns, Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville][https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/15365156/ S. A. F. COOPER PASSES AWAY] was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Allen Foster Cooper was born in Franklin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Normal School in California, Pennsylvania in 1881. He attended Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, in 1883. After this he taught for six years in public schools.

Cooper graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and commenced practice in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Cooper was elected as a Republican 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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