California State Officials Biographies 1911

E. C. COOPER

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
E. C. COOPER (Republican) was born in Eureka, California, on October 6, 1868. In 
1891 he graduated from the Hastings College of Law and commenced the practice of 
his profession in his home city. He was District Attorney of Humboldt County 
from 1889 to 1903, and was City Attorney of Eureka from 1903 to 1907. He was 
private secretary to Governor Gillett from 1907 until 1910, receiving his 
appointment as Insurance Commissioner on June 15th of that year.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913