John Charles Cooksey, M.D. (born August 20, 1941) is an ophthalmologist who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1997 to 2003.
Cooksey was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. He graduated from La Salle High School (La Salle Parish) in Olla, where his father operated a sawmill. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and received his M.D. degree in 1966. Muc...
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John Charles Cooksey, M.D. (born August 20, 1941) is an ophthalmologist who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1997 to 2003.
Cooksey was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. He graduated from La Salle High School (La Salle Parish) in Olla, where his father operated a sawmill. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and received his M.D. degree in 1966. Much later, in 1994, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas in Austin. From 1967 until 1969, he was in the United States Air Force, largely in Texas but briefly in Thailand. He was in the Air Force Reserve from 1969 until 1972.
He was elected to Congress in 1996 and represented Louisiana's Fifth District for three terms. Cooksey first won the seat by defeating the Democrat state legislator Francis C. Thompson of Delhi in Richland Parish. Cooksey had edged past former U.S. Representative Clyde C....
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