= Mark A. Cooper = '''Mark A. Cooper''' was a [[UnitedStates/WhigParty|Whig]] and later a [[UnitedStates/DemocraticParty|Democratic]] politician, and [[UnitedStates/HouseOfRepresentatives|congressman]] for Georgia. <> ---- == History == Cooper fought in the [[UnitedStates/Seminole|Second Seminole War]]; he rose to the rank of major. He was elected to [[UnitedStates/HouseOfRepresentatives|Congress]] in 1838 as a [[UnitedStates/WhigParty|Whig]]; at this time, Georgia elected all 9 members from a state-wide at-large district. He failed to win re-election in 1840, but after [[UnitedStates/WilliamCDawson|Dawson]] resigned in 1841, he won the subsequent special election running as a [[UnitedStates/DemocraticParty|Democrat]]. Cooper resigned in 1843 to run for governor (unsuccessfully, against [[UnitedStates/GeorgeWCrawford|Crawford]]). Cooper then left politics and founded a bank and an iron works. Through the [[UnitedStates/CivilWar|Civil War]], his investments were ruined (as Confederate notes were not honored) and destroyed (by [[UnitedStates/WilliamTecumsehSherman|Sherman's march]]). ---- == Policies == ---- CategoryRicottone