Background
Cooper, Samuel Inman was born on February 14, 1894 in Atlanta. Son of Joseph Walter and Nellie Sue (Inman) Cooper.
Cooper, Samuel Inman was born on February 14, 1894 in Atlanta. Son of Joseph Walter and Nellie Sue (Inman) Cooper.
Student Episcopal Academy, 1906-1910. Graduate Hotchkiss School, 1913. Bachelor of Letters, Princeton, 1917.
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1921.
Draftsman office A. Ten Eyck Brown, architect, Atlanta, 1922-1925. President Cooper & Cooper, architects, 1925-1942. Vice president Cooper, Bond & Cooper, Incorporated., architects and engineers, 1945-1952, president, 1952-1965.
Chairman Cooper, Barrett, Skinner, Woodbury and Cooper, Incorporated., architects on public and residential buildings, 1965-1972, consultant, 1972-1974.
Public buildings include school, college, libraries, dormitories, churches, gymnasia, public housing and office buildings American International Assurance delegate, State Department representative 6th Pan American Congress Architects, Lima, Peru, 1947, 7th Pan American Congress, Havana, Cuba, 1950, 8th Pan American Congress, Mexico City, 1952. American International Assurance delegate 12th Pan American Congress, Bogota, Colombia, 1968, 13th Congress, San Juan, Prize ring (The), 1970.
Chairman American International Assurance delegation 9th Pan American Congress, Venezuela, 1955, 10th Pan American Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960. American International Assurance representative to V Congress, Union International Architects, Moscow, Russia, 1958, to Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal, 1959, VI Congress, London, England., 1961.
President 11th Pan American Congress, Washington, 1965.
Chairman Atlanta Civic Design Commission, 1967-1970. Board visitors Berry College.
Served as Lieutenant 22d Infantry, United States Army, 1917-1919. Member architectural faculty University of Chile. (Fellow) The American Institute of Architects (Chairman of Commission on international relations 1961-1965).
Member Pan American Federation Associations
Architects (president 1960-1965, honorary life. Member Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican, Venezuelan, Panamanian societies architects.
Mason. Clubs: Charter, Nassau (Princeton).
Married Augusta Skeen, October 14, 1930.