The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Cooley, Thomas McIntyre

COOLEY, Thomas McIntyre, American jurist: b. Attica, N. Y., 6 Jan. 1824; d. Ann Arbor, Mich., 12 Sept. 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and became professor of law in the University of Michigan in 1859. He was elected justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1864 and was chief justice of that State 1868-69, retiring from the bench in 1885. In 1881 he again became professor of law in the University of Michigan. His principal works are ‘A Treatise Upon Wrongs and Their Remedies’ (1878); ‘General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States' (1880); ‘Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States’ (1873); ‘Law of Taxation’ (1876); ‘Michigan’ in ‘American Commonwealth Series.’