Governor Prentice Cooper
Governor Prentice Cooper was born in Bedford County on September28,1895. He died in Rochester, Minnesota on May19,1969. He is buried in Shelbyville,TN. Governor Cooper was a democrat. He received his collage training at Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Harvard Universities. Mr. Cooper was governor of Tennessee from 1939to 1945. After his governorship he served as United States Ambassador to Peru.