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Once worth at least $250,000, the old man was in serious debt at his death. John Sherman decided to assume all his father's obligations. After another year at Harvard, Cooper realized that he could not manage his family's affairs and pursue his law degree at the same time, and regretfully came home (he was admitted to the Kentucky bar, after an examination...
...Cooper got a job in the local public school. John Sherman paid off the debts, managed to send the other six children to college. His task took 25 years ("It didn't look like there was any end to it"), and he did not manage to get into the black until...
...back in Pulaski County long before he began to drift into local politics. Following Kentucky custom, candidates for office announce themselves on "court day," when, after the grand jury is impaneled, the judge recesses the court for the day and turns the courtroom over to the candidates. When John Sherman Cooper announced that he was running on the Republican ticket for the state House of Representatives in 1927, the crowd cheered. "They weren't cheering for me," says Cooper. "They were cheering for my father." He won without opposition...
...John Sherman felt he was ready for Washington. That year he won the Republican nomination for the Senate vacancy created by "Happy" Chandler's resignation. It was an audacious bid (only twice before in Kentucky's history had the voters sent a Republican to the Senate), and Cooper gave it all he had. Once again he tried his Pulaski County handshaking technique. The system is simple: Cooper drives to the edge of a town, gets out at one end of Main Street and walks up one sidewalk and down the other, in and out of shops, greeting everyone...
...forgot to make any mention of Cooper in his big speech until after he sat down. He corrected his omission by jumping up to the microphone with a perfunctory endorsement. Cooper labored diligently, and when the final tally was in, Ike had lost Kentucky by 700 votes, and John Sherman Cooper had carried the state with a solid 29,000 majority...