Alford W. Cooley
Alford Warriner Cooley (April 9, 1873 – July 19, 1913)[1][2] was an American attorney and judge who served as a justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court from 1909 to 1910.[3]
Life and career[edit]
Born in Westchester, New York, Cooley graduated from Harvard College in 1895 and from Columbia Law School in 1897.[1][2] He served as an inspector of common schools in New York from 1896 to 1898, and gained admission to the New York bar in 1898. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1900 to 1901.[1] He was clerk of the surrogate court of Westchester County from 1901 to 1903, a United States civil service commissioner from 1903 to 1906, and an assistant attorney general of the United States from 1906 to 1909.[1][2] In 1909, he was appointed to the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt, but resigned after less than two years due to failing health.[2] He then traveled back to the East Coast for treatment, in a car provided by former ambassador Larz Anderson.[2]
Personal life and death[edit]
On December 1, 1904, he married Susan Dexter in Boston, with whom he had one son.[1][2]
Cooley died of tuberculosis, from which he had suffered for several years, at his summer home in Topsfield, Massachusetts at the age of 40.[1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Friedmann Treatment Failed", Boston Evening Transcript (July 21, 1913), p. 5.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Judge A. W. Cooley Dies", Estancia News-Herald (July 31, 1913), p. 4.
- ^ Supreme Court, New Mexico (1912). Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. Vol. 16.
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