Cooper, William Frierson, 1820-1909

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Name (Latin)
Cooper, William Frierson, 1820-1909
Other forms of name
Cooper, W. F. (William Frierson), 1820-1909
Cooper, Wm. F. (William Frierson), 1820-1909
Date of birth
1820-03-11
Date of death
1909-05-07
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 63568124
Wikidata: Q8009444
Library of congress: no 90020275
Sources of Information
  • His Removal of causes from state to federal courts, 1877:t.p. (Wm. F. Cooper)
  • LC in OCLC, 9-24-90(hdg.: Cooper, William Frierson, 1820-1909; usage: William Frierson Cooper)
  • MoSU-L/NLT files(usage: W.F. Cooper, William F. Cooper)
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Wikipedia description:

William Frierson Cooper (March 11, 1820 – May 7, 1909) was a lawyer, planter and politician. He was nominated to the Supreme Court of the Confederate States of America by President Jefferson Davis, but the court never sat because of the American Civil War. After the war, he served as the Dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1874 to 1875. He was a judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1878 to 1886.

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