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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11 March 1820 Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, U.S.
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7 May 1909 (aged 89) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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