William Prentice Cooper (September 27, 1870 – July 3, 1961) was an American lawyer and politician.

He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1890, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

[3] Their son, Prentice Cooper, served as the 39th Governor of Tennessee from 1939 to 1945.

[4] His wife inherited the Absalom Lowe Landis House, also known as Beech Hall, in Normandy, Tennessee, where the Coopers summered.

[2] His grandson, Jim Cooper, was a member of the United States House of Representatives who retired from his seat in 2022.