Frank Cooper (October 1, 1869 – July 16, 1946) was a United States federal judge.
Cooper was born in Glenville, New York. He received an A.B. from Union University (New York) in 1893, and read law in 1895. He received an A.M. from Union University in 1896, and was in private practice of law in Schenectady, New York from 1895 to 1920, mostly representing corporations.
Cooper was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Cooper was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson on April 29, 1920, to a new seat created by 40 Stat. 1156; He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 3, 1920, and received his commission the same day. Assumed senior status on September 30, 1941. Cooper's service was terminated on July 16, 1946, due to death.
Famous quotes containing the words frank and/or cooper:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.”
—Gary Cooper (1901–1961)