riding predecessor successor birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date term_start birthname article_title term_end name
halifax robert stanfield gerald regan halifax , nova scotia 150px lawyer progressive conservative 24 june 1941 may 1979 george thomas hendery cooper george cooper -lrb- canadian politician -rrb-
 february 1980 george cooper
george cooper -lrb- canadian politician -rrb-

george thomas hendery cooper -lrb- born 24 june 1941 in halifax , nova scotia -rrb- was a progressive conservative party member of the house of commons of canada .
he was a lawyer .
he was elected to parliament at the halifax riding in the 1979 general election .
he served one federal term in office , the 31st canadian parliament , during which he was parliamentary secretary for the attorney general and the minister of justice .
in the 1980 federal election , cooper was defeated by gerald regan of the liberals .
cooper was selected as the interim president of the university of king 's college on 9 july 2012 .
