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American politician
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
26 July 1897(Nashville, Nash County, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
Death:
15 January 1974(Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
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Biography
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.