John G. Cooper
John Gordon Cooper (April 27, 1872 – January 7, 1955) was an Anglo-American railroad worker and politician who served 11 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1915 to 1937.[2] The family settled in Youngstown, Ohio, where he attended the public schools and began work in local steel mills in 1885.He entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1896, where he was employed as a locomotive fireman between 1896 and 1900, and as an engineer from 1900 and 1915. Cooper served as member of the Republican county committee in 1906.He died in Hagerstown, Maryland, January 7, 1955, and was interred in Lake Park Cemetery, in Youngstown, Ohio.This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress