Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn.

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Jim Cooper (D-TN) has represented Nashville and surrounding areas in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2002, currently serving on the Armed Services, Budget, and Oversight and Government Reform Committees. An attorney, investment banker and Rhodes Scholar, Cooper was first elected at age 28 to represent Tennessee's Fourth Congressional District (1983-95). Today, in addition to serving in Congress, he teaches graduate-level health policy at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management. He and his wife Martha have three children.