Thomas McIntyre Cooley was an American judge. He was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. He was the father of sociologist Charles Cooley. He was a charter member and first chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887).
Thomas M. Cooley
Cooley grave in front of Cooley family obelisk
Cover of a modern edition of A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations
Image: A Treatise on the Law of Torts
Charles Horton Cooley was an American sociologist. He was the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan. He was a founding member of the American Sociological Association in 1905 and became its eighth president in 1918. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the looking-glass self, which is the concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others. Cooley's health began to deteriorate in 1928. He was diagnosed with an unidentified form of cancer in March 1929 and died two months later.
Cooley as a young man
Cooley grave in front of Cooley family obelisk, Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor
