Charles Merian Cooper was a U.S. Representative

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 from Florida

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Born in Athens, Georgia

Athens, Georgia

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, Cooper moved with his parents to Florida in 1864.
He pursued academic studies at Gainesville Academy.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1877 and commenced practice in St. Augustine, Florida.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1880.
He served in the State senate in 1884, and as the Florida Attorney General

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 from 1885-1889.
He was appointed in 1889 one of the three commissioners to revise the statutes of the State.

Cooper was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-third

53rd United States Congress

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 and Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897).
He was not a candidate for renomination.
He resumed the practice of law in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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, until his death there November 14, 1923.
He was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery.