Background
Cooper, Allen Foster was born on June 16, 1862 in farm, Franklin Tp., Fayette Company, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Cooper, Allen Foster was born on June 16, 1862 in farm, Franklin Tp., Fayette Company, Pennsylvania, United States.
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. He died in Uniontown in 1918, aged 80.
Interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Member 58th to 61st Congresses (1903-1911), 23d Pennsylvania
Married Alice C. Lackey, of Fayette Company, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1890.