Mark A. Cooper
Mark A. Cooper was a Whig and later a Democratic politician, and congressman for Georgia.
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History
Cooper fought in the Second Seminole War; he rose to the rank of major.
He was elected to Congress in 1838 as a 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 Dawson resigned in 1841, he won the subsequent special election running as a Democrat.
Cooper resigned in 1843 to run for governor (unsuccessfully, against Crawford).
Cooper then left politics and founded a bank and an iron works. Through the Civil War, his investments were ruined (as Confederate notes were not honored) and destroyed (by Sherman's march).