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3 de ago. de 2023 · John Sherman Cooper was an early and consistent supporter of civil rights. While serving as Circuit Judge of Pulaski County in the mid-1940s, he integrated trial juries for the circuit. Cooper voted for many important pieces of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 24th Amendment.
John Sherman Cooper. John Sherman Cooper was born in Somerset, Kentucky, on 23rd August, 1901. After graduating from Yale College in attended Harvard Law School. He was admitted to bar in 1928 and worked as a lawyer in Somerset, Kentucky. A member of the Republican Party, Cooper was elected to the House of Representatives in Kentucky in 1928 ...
by Bill Cooper. United States senators quickly discover that their constitu ency extends beyond state boundaries. John Sherman Cooper of. Kentucky understood that promptly and, in turn, sought to serve each body politic. One example will serve to illustrate very simply how he dealt with that broader constituency; it also reveals much.
From the late 1940s through the 1970s, John Sherman Cooper, a quiet lawyer from Kentucky, ascended to become one of America’s leading statesmen. Cooper’s embodiment of the values of his rural upbringing, his understanding of people and their problems, and his openness and integrity were the qualities that Schulman believes, paradoxically won him success in dealing with the most powerful ...
The address was for the 11th annual John Sherman Cooper lecture series at the school. A Sense of Duty Cooper was born in 1901 into a politically prominent family: his father and several of his mother’s relatives served as Pulaski County Judge. Cooper attended Centre College and graduated from Yale before being accepted to Harvard Law School.
John Sherman Cooper was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat from the United States. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elected to two full terms in 1960 and 1966, representing Kentucky. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to India from 1955 to 1956 and U.S. Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976. He was the first Republican to ...
John Sherman Cooper’s exile from elective politics was brief as Alben Barkley dropped dead during a speech and both of Kentucky’s Senate seats were on the ballot in 1956. Congressman Thruston Morton challenged Senator Earle B. Clements and former Senator John Sherman Cooper ran for the seat left open by Barkley’s death.
