Jere Cooper (July 20, 1893 – December 18, 1957) was a Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee.

He married Mary Rankley in December 1930; the couple had one son, Leon Jere Cooper, who died as a child.

[1] Upon the U.S. entry into World War I in 1917, Cooper enlisted in the Second Tennessee Infantry, National Guard, and was commissioned a first lieutenant.

Elected as a Democrat to the 71st, and to the fourteen succeeding, Congresses, Cooper served from March 4, 1929, until his death.

[3] He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.