| Collection Name: |
John Sherman Cooper Oral History |
| Repository Name: |
University of Kentucky, Lexington. King Library. Special Collections. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
| URL: |
http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=oralhist&tpl=kukohjsc.tpl |
| Material Formats: |
[20 documents with text] |
| Dates Spanned: |
1976-1984 |
| Description: |
John Sherman Cooper served in the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1927-1929 and served as Pulaski County Judge, 1930-1938. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1946 to fill an unexpired term and served until 1948, and then again elected to fill an unexpired term from 1952-1954. He was elected to full terms in the U.S. Senate beginning in 1956 and served until 1972. He was U. S. Ambassador to India and Nepal, 1955-1956, and the first U. S. Ambassador to East Germany, 1974-1976. These interviews are with Cooper himself, his Senate colleagues, Senate office staff members, relatives, friends, political opponents, and newspaper publishers and reporters. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
118 |
| Interviews: |
[20 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
U.S. Politics; Politics |
| ASP Subjects: |
History; Kentucky; Law--Kentucky; Local history; Oral history; Political science--United States; Politicians; U.S. Congress. Senate; United States; United States. Congress. Senate--History; United States--Politics and government |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000386 |
