John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923)
Republican, Warren Commission, Beta Theta Pi. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Harvard. Georgetown set.
Member committee foreign relations, public works and environment, committee rules and administration, member select commission on standards and conduct.[9]
20 Dec 1974 to 28 Sep 1976 - 2nd United States Ambassador to East Germany by President Gerald Ford (Freemason).
1973 to 1974 - Adjunct Professor George Washington University.[9]
1973 to 1974, from 1976 - Of counsel, Covington & Burling (attorneys), Washington.[9]
29 Nov 1963 to 24 Sep 1964 - Warren Commission, chaired by Earl Warren (Freemason).
On 22 Nov 1963 (Same day as JFK assassination) Don B. Reynolds told B. Everett Jordan and his committee on Rules and Administration that he had sold insurance on the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson in the amount of two hundred thousand dollars; and that he had to make a “kickback” on the premium he recieved. The transaction with Johnson had been conducted through Walter Jenkins, a close aide to Johnson. (Jenkins later was disgraced by his arrest for soliciting homosexual acts in the men’s room at the YMCA, late in 1974.). This included a $585 stero and $1,200 to KTBC for advertising, a television station owned by LBJ. Reynolds had paperwork for the transactions.[8, p251, p254]
10 Oct 1963 - Senator Williams introduced a resolution calling upon the Committee on Rules and Administration to conduct an investigation of the financial and business interests and possible improprieties of any Senate employee or former employee. The Senate adopted this resolution by voice vote. The Committee on Rules and Administration was made up of nine members, six Democrats and Three Republicans. The Committee’s chairman was B. Everett Jordan, Democrat, of North Carolina. The other Democratic members were Carl Hayden (Freemason), of Arizona; Claiborne Pell (American Whig–Cliosophic Society), of Rhode Island; Joseph Clark (St. Anthony Hall. Phi Beta Kappa), of Pennsylvania; Howard W. Cannon (Mormon Church), of Nevada; and Robert C. Bryd (Tau Kappa Epsilon), of West Virginia. The Repulicans were John Sherman Cooper [S&B 1923], of Kentucky; Hugh Scott (Alpha Chi Rho. Related to President Zachary Taylor, whose son was S&B. Society of Cincinnati.), of Pennsylvania; and Carl T. Curtis (Freemason). Committee Counsel L. F. McLendon. [8,p247]
7 Nov 1956 to 3 Jan 1973 - United States Senator from Kentucky.[9]
4 Feb 1955 to 9 Apr 1956 - 5th United States Ambassador to India by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[9]
5 Nov 1953 to 3 Jan 1955 - United States Senator from Kentucky.[9]
6 Nov 1946 to 3 Jan 1449 - United States Senator from Kentucky.[9]
After being urged into politics by his uncle, Judge Roscoe Tartar, Cooper (S&B 1923) ran unopposed for a seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives as a Republican in 1927.[9] As a member of the House, he was one of only three Republicans to oppose Republican Governor Flem D. Sampson’s unsuccessful attempt to politicize the state department of health; the measure failed by a single vote. Cooper supported the governor’s plan to provide free textbooks for the state’s school children and sponsored legislation to prohibit judges from issuing injunctions to end labor strikes, although the latter bill did not pass.[1] ( Search mind map… David Harold Byrd who owned the School Book Depository )
Great Depression - 1930 to 1938 - Judge, Pulaski County, Kentucky.[9]
Great Depression, 1929, Cooper (S&B 1923)declared his candidacy for county judge of Pulaski County.[19] His opponent, the incumbent, was the president of Somerset Bank and the former law partner of Cooper’s father. Cooper won the election, however, beginning the first of his eight years as county judge. During his service, he was required by law to enforce eviction notices, but often helped those he evicted find other housing or gave them money himself, earning him the nickname “the poor man’s judge”. He reportedly became so depressed by the poverty and suffering of his constituents during the Great Depression that he had a nervous breakdown and took a leave of absence to seek psychiatric treatment.[1]
1928 to 1930 - Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 41st district.
Died 21 Feb 1991 from Heart Failure. Age 89. Event +27y 2m 30d (9,953 days)
[1] - FYI - Wiki - John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923)
[2] - Spartacus-educational.com- John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923)
[3] - nndb.com - John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923)
[4] - Find a Grave.com - John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923)
[5] - NY Times, Feb 23, 1991 - John Sherman Cooper Dies at 89; Longtime Senator From Kentucky
[9] - Prabook.com - John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923)
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