# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:26:42.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-cooper"
name: "Jim Cooper"
slug: "jim-cooper"
description: "James Hayes Shofner Cooper is an American lawyer, businessman, professor, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2023. He is a Southern Democrat and was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, and represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995. His district included all of Nashville. He chaired the United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the House Armed Services Committee, and sat on the Committee on Oversight and Reform, United States House Committee on the Budget, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, more committees than any other member of Congress. At the end of his tenure, he was also the dean of Tennessee's congressional delegation. Cooper is the third-longest serving member of Congress ever from Tennessee, after Jimmy Quillen and B. Carroll Reece."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Cooper%2C_Official_Portrait%2C_ca2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.9
  momentum:             1.360381861575179
  historical:           12.069624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 147
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "RepJimCooper"
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    handle:    "repjimcooper"
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    handle:    "JimCooper"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjplyIIQbNZcl013AyDfPNg"
    handle:    "@repjimcooper"
    followers: 147
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Cooper (Politiker)"
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    title: "Jim Cooper"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Cooper"
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    title: "Jim Cooper"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cooper"
    title: "Jim Cooper"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cooper"
    title: "Jim Cooper"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump