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John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was a U.S. ambassador and senator from Kentucky. He was elected to the U.S. Senate three times non-consecutively and was considered by many to be a career politician.[1]
U.S. Senate
Third & last terms
After Alben W. Barkley's death in 1956 while serving in the Senate, Eisenhower encouraged Cooper to run for the seat.[2] Cooper accepted, and won the election by 6.5% of the vote.
Warren Commission
Cooper was appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson to the Warren Commission after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cooper, along with senator Richard Russell Jr. and representative Hale Boggs, dissented from the verdict of the Warren Commission that concluded on the single-bullet, lone-assassin theory.[1]