- Thomas Cooper de Leon
Thomas Cooper De Leon (
May 21 ,1839 –March 19 ,1914 ) was an American journalist, author, and playwright.Born in
Columbia, South Carolina , he was the brother of writer and Confederate diplomat and propagandistEdwin de Leon . He served in the Confederate army from 1861 to 1865, and after the Civil war edited "The Mobile Register", and "The Gossip" and the "Gulf Citizen " (both Mobile papers; 1873-96). For many years, he managed the MobileMardi Gras Carnival.He was the author of a number of works, among them being "Creole and Puritan" (1889), "The Puritan's Daughter", and "Four Years in Rebel Capitals" (1893). He also wrote a number of plays, including the comedy-drama "Pluck" which was produced by
Lawrence Barrett in 1873. He was totally blind from 1903 and called "The Blind Laureate of the Lost Cause."Thomas Cooper de Leon is named for the good friend of his father, the outspoken Thomas Cooper, president of the
University of South Carolina . He was buried in Magnolia Cemetery,Mobile, Alabama .References
* Lamb, Biographical Dict. of the United States, Boston, 1900;
* Allibone, Dict. of Authors, Supplement;
* Who's Who in America, 1903-5
*JewishEncyclopediaPersondata
NAME= de Leon, Thomas Cooper
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=American journalist, author, and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH=May 21 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH=Columbia,South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH=March 19 1914
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