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John Sherman Cooper (19011991) was an
American politician, jurist, and diplomat. He began
his political career in the Kentucky House of
Representatives (192729) before being elected as
a county judge in 1930. After serving in the U.S.
Army in World War II and reorganizing the
Bavarian judicial system after Germany's defeat, he
was a Kentucky circuit judge before winning
election to the U.S. Senate in 1946. He was
defeated in the 1948 election, but re-elected to
partial terms in 1952 and 1956, serving as
Ambassador to India in between. He was re-elected
to the Senate in 1960 and 1966 by record margins
for Kentucky. President John F. Kennedy chose
Cooper to conduct a secret fact-finding mission to
Moscow and New Delhi. Following Kennedy's
assassination in November 1963, President Lyndon
B. Johnson appointed Cooper to the Warren
Commission to investigate the assassination.
Cooper soon became an outspoken opponent of
Johnson's decision to escalate U.S. military
involvement in the Vietnam War. Aging and
increasingly deaf, Cooper did not seek re-election
in 1972. His last acts of public service were as
Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976
and as an alternate delegate to the United Nations
in 1981. (Full article...)
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