Charles Merian Cooper

US Congressman. He moved with his parents to Florida, in 1864, pursued academic studies at Gainesville Academy, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced to practice law in St. Augustine, Florida. He was a member of the Florida State House of Representatives in 1880, a member in the Florida State Senate in 1884, Attorney General of Florida, (1885-89) and appointed one of the three commissioners to revise the statutes for Florida State, in 1889. In 1893, he was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, serving until 1897. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he resumed the practice of law in Jacksonville, Florida, until his death at age 67.