COOPER, THOMAS
\kˈuːpə], \kˈuːpə], \k_ˈuː_p_ə]\
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(1759-1840), scientist. An English democrat, he emigrated to the United States in 1795. He was one of those tried under the Sedition Act, was president of the College of South Carolina, and was one of the founders of political economy in America.
By John Franklin Jameson
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