Role American Politician Party Democratic Party | Occupation lawyer Name Harold Cooley | |
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Alma mater University of North Carolina System, Yale Law School | ||
Succeeded by James Carson Gardner | ||
Harold Dunbar Cooley (July 26, 1897 – January 15, 1974) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the Fourth Congressional district of North Carolina from 1934 to 1966. Cooley remains the longest-serving Chairman in the history of the United States House Committee on Agriculture.
He was nearly defeated in 1964 by Republican James Carson Gardner and lost to Gardner in a stunning 13-point upset in 1966.
His home at Nashville, the Bissette-Cooley House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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