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Thomas McIntyre Cooley, LL.D., (January 6, 1824 – September 12, 1898) was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. Born in Attica, New York, he was father to Charles Cooley, a distinguished American sociologist. He was a charter member and first chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887). In 1877, Justice Cooley was appointed visiting faculty, by Sir William Osler, to the Johns Hopkins University.〔(Bernard Christian Steiner, ''The History Of University Education In Maryland''. )〕〔(''Records of the Department of Political Science 1929–1969, Record Group Number 04.150, The Ferdinand Hamburger Archives, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University )〕 Cooley was appointed Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, a position he held until 1884. Thomas M. Cooley Law School of Lansing, Michigan was named after Justice Cooley to recognize his contribution to American jurisprudence. Also, Cooley High School in Detroit and Cooley Elementary School in Waterford, Michigan, are commemoratively named in Justice Cooley's honor.SS Justice Cooley is recognized by the State Bar of Michigan as a "Michigan Legal Milestone".〔(Michigan Legal Milestones. )〕 ==Early life and career== In 1824, Thomas Cooley was born in Attica, New York, to farmers Thomas Cooley and Rachel Hubbard. He attended Attica Academy and took an interest in the law and literary pursuits. In 1842, he studied law under Theron Strong, who had just completed a term as representative for New York to the Congress.〔 The next year, he moved to Adrian, Michigan and continued to study law. By 1846, he was admitted to the Michigan bar and married Mary Horton. In addition to his small legal practice, Cooley was active in other intellectual and political pursuits. He wrote poems criticizing slavery and celebrating the European revolutions of 1848, edited pro-Democratic newspapers, and founded the Michigan branch of the Free Soil Party in 1848.〔 By 1856, he became a Republican. In the 1850s, he slowly built his professional reputation. He was compiler of Michigan statutes and a reporter for the Michigan Supreme Court. In 1859 he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and became one of the University of Michigan Law School's first professors.〔 He would go on to play a major role in the development of the University and the Law School, serving on faculty until 1884, including a long stint as the law school's dean from 1871 until 1883.〔"(List of Law School Deans )" www.law.umich.edu Retrieved January 8, 2012.〕 in 1864, Cooley was elected to the Supreme Court of Michigan, and served as the chief justice for 20 years.〔 Politically, he remained a Republican, and even considered running for Congress in 1872. However, he maintained a certain independence politically, and bolted from the Republican party as a mugwump to support Grover Cleveland in 1884, and later in 1894.〔 This independence may have cost him an appointment to the US Supreme Court.〔"(History and Traditions: Thomas M Cooley )" www.law.umich.edu Retrieved January 8, 2012.〕 However, he was rewarded politically when in 1887 when President Cleveland nominated him to the Interstate Commerce Commission, one of the first independent agencies of the federal government. With Mary Horton he had six children, including Charles Cooley, a distinguished American sociologist, and Thomas Benton Cooley, a noted pediatrician.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas M. Cooley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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