Cooper, William C
was born Dec. 18, 1832, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Mount Vernon from 1859 to 1863; was mayor of Mount Vernon from 1862 to 1864; was a representative in the state legislature from 1872 to 1874; and was judge-advocategeneral of Ohio from 1879 to 1884. In 1881 he became a member of the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon.
In 1882 he was elected president of the board. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.