Richard M. Cooper

Richard Matlack Cooper (February 29, 1768 March 10, 1843) was a Representative from New Jersey.

He completed a preparatory course of studies; was engaged in banking; was a coroner 17951799; judge and justice of Gloucester County courts 18031823; a member of the State general assembly 18071810; president of the State Bank of New Jersey at Camden 18131842; elected as an Anti- Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829 March 4, 1833); declined to be a candidate for reelection; died in Camden, New Jersey, March 10, 1843. He is interred in the Newton Burying Ground.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Thomas Sinnickson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's at-large congressional district

1829–1833
Succeeded by
Samuel Fowler


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