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Jim Cooper

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James Hayes Shofner Cooper(born June 19, 1954) is an American lawyer, businessman, professor, and politician who served as theU.S. representativeforTennessee's 5th congressional district(based inNashvilleand containing parts ofDavidson,Cheatham,andDicksonCounties) from 2003 to 2023. He is aSouthern Democratand was a member of theBlue Dog Coalition,and representedTennessee's 4th congressional districtfrom 1983 to 1995.[1]His district included all of Nashville. He chaired theUnited States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forcesof theHouse Armed Services Committee,and sat on theCommittee on Oversight and Reform,United States House Committee on the Budget,and theHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,more committees than any other member of Congress. At the end of his tenure, he was also the dean of Tennessee's congressional delegation. Cooper is the third-longest serving member of Congress ever from Tennessee, afterJimmy QuillenandB. Carroll Reece.

Jim Cooper
Official portrait, 2013
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
fromTennessee
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byBob Clement
Succeeded byAndy Ogles
Constituency5th district
In office
January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995
Preceded byRedistricted
Succeeded byVan Hilleary
Constituency4th district
Personal details
Born
James Hayes Shofner Cooper

(1954-06-19)June 19, 1954(age 70)
Nashville, Tennessee,U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
Martha Hayes
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(m.1985; died 2021)​
Mary Falls
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(m.2022)​
Children3
RelativesPrentice Cooper(father)
John Cooper(brother)
EducationUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill(BA)
Oriel College, Oxford(MA)
Harvard University(JD)
Jim Cooper's voice
Jim Cooper speaks in support of the FY2019National Defense Authorization Act
Recorded July 26, 2018

Due to Cooper's rare split tenure in Congress in two entirely different districts, his career was divided in two fields: regulatory and health care legislation in the rural 4th district and military affairs in the urban 5th.

Cooper built seniority and respect on two different sets of committees, becoming whatThe New York Timesop-ed writerJoe Noceracalled "the conscience of the House, a lonely voice for civility in this ugly era."[2]

Cooper announced that he would not seek reelection in2022after accusing Tennessee's Republican-ledstate legislatureofpartisan gerrymanderingin theredistricting cycle.[3]The new congressional map, which splitDavidson Countyinto 3 separate districts, turned TN-5 from a Democratic-leaning seat into a Republican one. Cooper was succeeded by RepublicanAndy Ogles.

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Cooper was born inNashvilleand raised inShelbyville, Tennessee.[4]He is the son of formergovernorPrentice Cooperand his wife Hortense (Powell).[5]His paternal grandfather,William Prentice Cooper,served as mayor of Shelbyville and speaker of theTennessee House of Representatives.[6]The Cooper family owns theRiver Side Farmhouse,built for his great-great-grandfather, Jacob Morton Shofner, in 1890;[7]theGov. Prentice Cooper House,built for his grandfather in 1904;[8]and the 1866Absalom Lowe Landis HouseinNormandy, Tennessee,all of which are listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.[9]

Cooper attended the Episcopal boys' boarding schoolGroton SchoolinGroton, Massachusetts,[10]and theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Chapter of theChi Psifraternity, received theMorehead-Cain Scholarship,and earned aB.A.in history with highest honors and honors in economics in three years. He was awarded aRhodes Scholarshipto study atOxford,where he was a member ofOriel Collegeand earned a B.A./M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics in 1977. In 1980, he received aJ.D.fromHarvard Law School.[11]

Cooper spent two years working for the law firmWaller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLPinNashville,and then ran for Congress in 1982.[12]

U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1995)

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Elections

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Cooper during the
108th Congress

1982

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In 1982, Cooper won the Democraticprimaryfor the 4th district, which had been created when Tennessee gained a district after the 1980 census. The new 4th ran diagonally across the state, from heavilyRepublicanareas near theTri-Cities,KnoxvilleandChattanoogato the fringes of the Nashvillesuburbs.The district stretched across five media markets–the Tri-Cities (Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol), Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville andHuntsville, Alabama.The district touched four states – Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi – and nearly touched North Carolina and Georgia.

Cooper defeated Cissy Baker, an editor in Washington forCNNand the daughter of U.S. Senate Majority LeaderHoward Baker,[13]with 66% of the vote, becoming the youngest member of Congress at age 28.

Cooper was reelected five more times with little substantive opposition, running unopposed in 1986 and 1988. Before Cooper's election, much of the eastern portion of the 4th had not been represented by a Democrat since theCivil War.

Tenure

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In 1992, Cooper co-authored a bipartisan health-care reform plan that did not include employer mandates compellinguniversal coverage.Called "Clinton-Lite", this initiative was strongly opposed byHillary Clintondespite its strong backing from both parties.[14]

In 1990, Cooper was one of only three House Democrats to vote against theAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990.[15]

Committee assignments

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During Cooper's first period in Congress, he served first on theFinancial Services Committeeand then on theCommittee on Energy and Commerce.[16][17][18]

With RepresentativeFred Grandyand SenatorJohn Breaux,Cooper coauthored the Cooper-Breaux bipartisan health reform plan, which dramatically increased health insurance coverage with the support of the business community.[19]

Cooper became the leading expert on rural electrical cooperatives, later authoring "Electric Co-operatives: From New Deal to Bad Deal?" in theHarvard Journal on Legislation.[20]

1994 U.S. Senate election

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See also:1994 United States Senate special election in Tennessee

In 1994, Cooper ran for theSenateseat vacated byAl Gore's election to theVice Presidencyin 1992, but lost to Republican attorney and actorFred Thompson.Cooper received just under 40% of the vote. It was a bad year overall for Democrats in Tennessee, as RepublicanBill Fristwon Tennessee's other Senate seat held byJim SasserandDon Sundquistwas elected governor. The 4th district seat was also won by a Republican,Van Hilleary,as the GOP gained a majority of the state's congressional delegation for only the second time sinceReconstruction.[citation needed]

Inter-congressional years (1995–2003)

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After losing his Senate bid, Cooper moved to Nashville and became an investment banker atEquitable Securities.Later, he co-foundedBrentwood Capital Advisors,a boutique investment bank based in Nashville. He also served as an adjunct professor atVanderbilt University'sOwen Graduate School of Managementuntil 2015.[21]

U.S. House of Representatives (2003–2023)

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Elections

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2002

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See also:2002 United States House of Representatives elections § Tennessee

When Thompson opted not to run for reelection to the Senate in 2002, 5th district CongressmanBob Clement(with whom Cooper had served from 1988 to 1995) ran for Thompson's seat. Cooper entered the 5th district Democratic primary along with several other candidates, includingDavidson CountySheriff Gayle Ray, Tennessee's first female sheriff, and state legislator John Arriola.[22]Cooper won the primary with 47% of the vote. He won the general election against Republican nominee Robert Duvall (not the actorRobert Duvall), 64%-33%.[23]

The 5th, based in heavily Democratic Nashville, has long been one of the South's most Democratic districts. It and its predecessors have been in Democratic hands without interruption since 1875, and no Republican had made a serious bid for it since 1972. Upon his return to Congress, the Democrats gave him back his seniority.

2010

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See also:2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee § District 5

Cooper defeated Republican nominee David Hall, 57%–42%. This is his smallest margin of victory during his time representing the 5th district.[24]

2012

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See also:2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee § District 5

Republicans gained complete control of state government for the first time since Reconstruction. This led to speculation that the legislature might try to draw the 5th out from under Cooper in an effort to gain another Republican district. In the summer of 2011, Cooper andNashville MayorKarl DeantoldThe Tennesseanthat they had heard rumors that Nashville would be split among three Republican districts. Despite its size, Nashville has been entirely or mostly in a single district since Reconstruction. Cooper said he had seen a map that would have put his Nashville home in the heavily Republican6th district.The 5th would have been reconfigured into a strongly Republican district stretching fromMurfreesboroto the Alabama border, while the rest of Nashville would have been placed in the heavily Republican7th district.Had it been implemented, the map would have left Cooper with only two realistic places to run—an incumbent-versus-incumbent challenge in the 6th against freshman RepublicanDiane Black,or the reconfigured 5th, which had reportedly been drawn for State Senator and Murfreesboro residentBill Ketron,chairman of the redistricting committee.[25]But the final map was far less ambitious, and made the 5th slightly more Democratic than its predecessor. Notably, Cooper picked up all of Nashville; previously, a sliver of southwestern Nashville had been in the 7th.

Cooper defeated Republican nominee B. Staats, 65%–33%.[26]

2020

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See also:2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee § District 5

Cooper was challenged in the Democratic primary by public defender Keeda Haynes, Justin Jones, and former Republican Joshua Rawlings,[27]though Jones withdrew before the primary. Haynes was endorsed by state senatorBrenda Gilmore[28]and2020Democraticpresidential candidateMarianne Williamson,[29]among others. Cooper defeated Haynes and Rawlings with 57% of the vote to Haynes's 40% and Rawlings's 3%.[30]

In the general election, Cooper did not face a Republican nominee. He received 99.99% of the vote, with 14 votes going to write-in candidates.

The Golden Goose Award

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In 2012, Cooper created theGolden Goose Awardto recognize the human and economic benefits of federally funded research.[31]Each year, the award is given to scientists to highlight examples of seemingly obscure studies that have led to major breakthroughs and resulted in significant societal impact. Cooper's inspiration for the award came from his desire to reverse the legacy of former SenatorWilliam Proxmire's "Golden Fleece Award",which attacked federal spending he saw as wasteful, often federally funded scientific research. Cooper, known as" Father Goose ", was honored at the 2022 Golden Goose Award Ceremony.[32]

Retirement

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See also:2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee § District 5

On January 25, 2022, Cooper announced he would not run for reelection and would retire from Congress.[33]Cooper made the decision due to the state legislature's controversial move to split Davidson County into three congressional districts in an attempt togerrymanderanother Republican district.[34]

The final map pushed the 5th into portions of heavily Republican counties to the east and south.Joe Bideneasily won the old 5th with 60% of the vote, butDonald Trumpwould have carried the new 5th with 55%. At the same time, parts of Nashville were drawn into the heavily Republican 6th and 7th districts. Cooper's only options would have been running in the new 5th, which would have been almost two-thirds new to him, or challenging Republican incumbentsJohn Rosein the 6th orMark Greenin the 7th. Believing he had no realistic chance of staying in Congress, Cooper opted to retire.

Tenure

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Cooper speaks at conference outside theU.S. Capitol

Cooper was a member of theBlue Dog Coalition[1]and theNew Democrat Coalition,[35]and he had a generally moderate voting record. He also served on theOversight and Government ReformCommittee. Despite the different policy affiliation, he became one ofBarack Obama's earliest Congressional endorsers.[36]Cooper opposed an $819 billion economic stimulus plan that passed the House in 2009,[37]but ended up voting for the revised$787 billion final package.[38]He is one of only a few Blue Dog members not to seekearmarks.[39][40]Cooper voted for thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Actin March 2010.[41]

In 2006, Cooper persuaded Nelson Current publishers to issueThe Financial Report of the United States: The Official Report the White House Does Not Want You to Read,for which he wrote the introduction.

In 2009 theWall Street Journalwrote of Cooper's concerns about the national deficit, "It's even worse than most people think, he says, because of dodgy accounting used by the federal government.... 'The U.S. government uses cash accounting,' he says. 'That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government.'"[42]He made similar remarks on PBS, saying, "The real deficit in America is at least twice as large as any politician will tell you. And it may be ten times larger."[43]

In 2011, Cooper was one of five Democrats to vote for theCut, Cap, and Balance Act,[44]and co-sponsored theStop Online Piracy Act.[45]

In 2012, Cooper authored theNo Budget, No Pay Act,which specified that members of Congress would not be paid unless they passed a budget by October 1, 2012.[46][47][48]It became law in modified form in 2015. Also in 2012, Cooper and RepresentativeSteve LaTourette[49]forced the only congressional vote on the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction package.

Cooper created the Golden Goose Award to honor the benefits of government-funded scientific research with an annual award ceremony at the Library of Congress.[50]The award is intended to boost the morale of researchers who are often ridiculed by politicians for their work.

In January 2013, Cooper was the only Democrat in the House to vote against an emergency bill to provide additional disaster and recovery funds in the wake ofHurricane Sandyafter supporting the initial $30 billion in relief.[51]

In recent cycles, Cooper has consistently voted for someone other thanNancy Pelosifor speaker. He cast his vote forHeath Shulerin 2011,[52]Colin Powellin 2013,[53]January 2015[54]and October 2015,[55]and forTim Ryanin 2017.[56]He voted present in 2019. In 2021, Cooper broke his streak and voted for Pelosi.[57][58]

In 2017, Cooper worked with Republican RepresentativeMike Rogersof Alabama on a proposal to establish a Space Corps under the Department of the Air Force. This proposal passed in the House and then failed in the Senate.[59]Two years later, a bill with very similar language was signed into law, creating theUnited States Space Force.[60]

On December 18, 2019, Cooper voted for botharticles of impeachmentagainst PresidentDonald J. Trump.[61]

On January 13, 2021, Cooper voted for thesecond impeachment of Donald Trump.[62]

In January 2022, when the board of trustees ofMcMinn County Schoolsin Tennessee, in a 10-0 decision, removed thePulitzer Prize-winningHolocaustgraphic novelMausfrom its curriculum for8th gradeEnglish classes, overriding a State curriculum decision, Cooper was critical of the decision. He called the ban "outrageous" and "really shameful".[63]

Cooper served on the Strategic Forces Subcommittee and was one of the top Democrats in charge of both nuclear weapons and military satellites for many years. Although most of the work was classified, he wrote an article forWar on the Rockstitled "Updating Space Doctrine: How to Avoid World War III", which advocated for the weaponization of space as a deterrence.[64]Cooper was one of few Democrats who supported theSpace Development Agency,to build space-based deterrence.[65]He and his Republican counterpart,Doug Lamborn,also wrote "Let's Correct a Misperception about Nuclear Modernization" forDefense One.[66]

Criticism of Congress

In 2009, Cooper and his aide Russell Rumbaugh authored an article titled "Real Acquisition Reform", which was printed inJoint Forces Quarterly.[67]

Cooper spoke withHarvard Law SchoolprofessorLawrence Lessigabout reforming Congress.[68]According to Lessig, Cooper said that members of Congress are so preoccupied with the question of what they will do after leaving Congress–the most obvious career path being lobbying–that they fall into the habit of thinking about how to serve special interests rather than how to serve the public.[68]According to Lessig, Cooper called Congress a "Farm League forK Street".[68][69]The Boston Reviewreprinted Cooper's Harvard lecture on "Fixing Congress."[70]

In 2011, Cooper said, "Working in this Congress is deeply frustrating; in fact, it's enraging. My colleagues are misbehaving. They're posturing for voters back home. They're taking the cheap political hit instead of studying the problem that's before us."[71]The same year, he "called the partisan posturing over the debt ceiling 'an extremely dangerous game of chicken,' and said he'd 'never seen politicians act more irresponsibly than they have been recently,' over the nation's debt."[72]

Cooper was ranked the 20th most bipartisan member of the House during the114th United States Congress(and the most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee) in theLugar CenterandMcCourt School of Public Policy's Bipartisan Index, which ranks members of Congress by bipartisanship (by measuring how often each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).[73]

In 2022, Cooper was one of 16 Democrats to vote against the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, an antitrust package that would crack down on corporations for anti-competitive behavior.[74][75]

Committee assignments

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Caucus memberships

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  • Blue Dog Coalition[77]
  • New Democrat Coalition[78]
  • Congressional Skin Cancer Caucus (Co-Chair)
  • Congressional Wire Products Caucus (Co-Chair)
  • Fix Congress Now Caucus (Co-Chair)
  • 21st Century Healthcare Caucus
  • Bipartisan Disabilities Caucus/Disabilities Advisory Caucus
  • Congressional Arts Caucus
  • Congressional HBCU Caucus
  • Kurdish American Caucus
  • National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus
  • Servicewomen and Women Veterans Congressional Caucus
  • Bipartisan Task Force Combating Anti-Semitism
  • Gun Violence Prevention Task Force[79]

Post-government career

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As of 2024, Cooper serves on the advisory board of theNational Security Space Association.[80]

Personal life

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Cooper with his wife Martha

Cooper was married to Martha Bryan Hays, anornithologist,from 1985 until her death fromAlzheimer's diseasein 2021 at age 66.[6][81]They had three children.[82]His daughter Mary was thestudent body presidentat theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[83]Cooper's son Jamie graduated from theUniversity of Georgia,and his son Hayes graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hilland is completing hisM.F.A.in poetry atVanderbilt University.[citation needed]

Cooper's brotherJohnserved asmayor of Nashvillefrom 2019 to 2023 and formerly served on theMetropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County.[84]

Cooper married Mary Beltz Falls in March 2022.[85]

Cooper is anEpiscopalian.[86]

Electoral history

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Election results
Year Office Subject Party Votes % Opponent Party Votes %
1982 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 93,453 66.1 Cissy Baker Republican 47,865 33.9%
1984 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 93,848 75.2% James Beau Seigneur Republican 31,011 24.8%
1986 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 86,997 100.0%
1988 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 94,129 100.0%
1990 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 52,101 67.4% Claiborne Sanders Republican 26,424 29.6% Gene M. Bullington Independent 3,793 3.0%
1992 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 98,984 64.6% James Beau Seigneur Republican 50,340 32.9% Ginnia C. Fox Independent 3,970 2.5% Kieven Parks Independent 1,210 1.0%
1994 U.S. Senator Jim Cooper Democratic 565,930 38.6% Fred Thompson Republican 885,998 60.4%
2002 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 108,903 63.7% Robert Duvall Republican 56,825 33.3% John Jay Hooker Independent 3,063 1.8% Jonathan Farley Independent 1,205 1.0% Jesse Turner Independent 877 1.0%
2004 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 168,970 69.3% Scott Knapp Republican 74,978 30.7%
2006 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 122,919 68.9% Tom Kovach Republican 49,702 28.0% Virginia Welsch Independent 3,766 2.1% Scott Knapp Independent 1,755 1.0%
2008 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 181,467 65.9% Gerard Donovan Republican 85,471 31.0% Jon Jackson Independent 5,464 2.0% John Miglietta Green 3,196 1.0%
2010 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 99,162 56.2% David Hall Republican 74,204 42.1%
2012 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 171,621 65.2% Brad Staats Republican 86,240 32.8% John Miglietta Green 5,222 2.0%
2014 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 96,148 62.3% Bob Ries Republican 55,078 35.3% Paul Deakin Independent 3,050 6.4%
2016 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 171,111 62.6% Stacy Ries Snyder Republican 102,433 37.4%
2018 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 177,923 67.8% Jody Ball Republican 84,317 32.2%
2020 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 50,752 57.1% Keeda Haynes Democratic 35,472 39.9 Joshua Rawlings Democratic 2,681 3.0%
2020 U.S. Representative Jim Cooper Democratic 252,155 100.0%

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Preceded by Member of theU.S. House of Representatives
fromTennessee's 4th congressional district
1983–1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of theU.S. House of Representatives
fromTennessee's 5th congressional district
2003–2023 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Baby of the House
1983–1984 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Democraticnominee forU.S. SenatorfromTennessee
(Class 2)
1994 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chair of theBlue Dog Coalitionfor Policy
2005–2007
Served alongside:Jim Matheson(Administration),Dennis Cardoza(Communications) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chair of theBlue Dog Coalitionfor Policy
2013–2017
Served alongside:John Barrow,Kurt Schrader(Administration),Kurt Schrader,Jim Costa(Communications) 		Succeeded by
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Preceded byas Former US Representative Order of precedence of the United States
as Former US Representative 		Succeeded byas Former US Representative
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