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词条 Thomas Cunningham Cochran
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| birth_place = Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania
| state = Pennsylvania
| district = 20th
| term_start = March 4, 1933
| term_end = January 3, 1935
| preceded = Howard W. Stull
| succeeded = Denis J. Driscoll
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| district2 = 28th
| term_start2 = March 4, 1927
| term_end2 = March 3, 1933
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Thomas Cunningham Cochran (November 30, 1877 – December 10, 1957) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Thomas C. Cochran was born in Sandy Creek Township, Pennsylvania (near Sheakleyville, Pennsylvania). He moved with his parents to Mercer, Pennsylvania, in 1879. He graduated from the Mercer High School in 1896 and from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1901. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He was a member of the faculty of Mercer Academy in 1902 and 1903. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1903. He commenced practice in Mercer, Pennsylvania. He was district attorney of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, from 1906 to 1909. He was a trustee of Westminster College.

Cochran was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth and to the three succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1934. After his time in Congress, he served as a delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conferences in Paris, France, in 1927, Berlin, Germany, in 1928, Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929, London, England, in 1930, and Istanbul, Turkey, in 1934, and as an observer in Oslo, Norway, in 1939, Istanbul in 1951, and Washington, D.C. in 1953. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Mercer. Interment in Mercer Citizens Cemetery.

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7 : 1877 births|1957 deaths|People from Mercer, Pennsylvania|Westminster College (Pennsylvania) alumni|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania Republicans|Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives

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