Wyatt Emory Cooper (1927 - 1978)

Born 1 Sep 1927 in Quitman, Pleasant Grove, Clark Co., MS

Ancestors

Husband of Gloria Laura (Vanderbilt) Cooper — married 24 Dec 1963 (to 5 Jan 1978) in Arlington, Virginia, United States

Died 5 Jan 1978 at age 50 in Manhattan, New York, NY

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Biography

He married heiress Gloria Vanderbilt on December 24, 1963. Son of a poor family with deep Southern roots, and later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, as a young child. Cooper moved to New York in his twenties to pursue acting.worked there as a magazine editor.

Cooper was Vanderbilt's fourth husband. They had two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965–1988) and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper (b. 1967). Wyatt Cooper died on January 5, 1978, in New York City during open heart surgery.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Emory_Cooper
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14669135

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMBN-ZV5 : accessed 24 October 2015), Wyatt E Cooper in household of Emmet D Cooper, Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0002, sheet 10B, family 227, line 51, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1141; FHL microfilm 2,340,876.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYG3-2HW : accessed 24 October 2015), Wyatt Cooper in household of Emmett D Cooper, Beat 1, Clarke, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 12-2, sheet 19A, family 322, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2015.