| Alford W. Cooley | |
| Birth Name: | Alford Warriner Cooley |
| Birth Date: | 9 April 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Westchester, New York, US |
| Death Place: | Topsfield, Massachusetts, US |
| Occupation: | Lawyer, judge |
| Children: | 1 |
| Office1: | Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court |
| Term Start1: | 1909 |
| Term End1: | 1910 |
| Office2: | Member of the New York State Assembly |
| Term Start2: | 1900 |
| Term End2: | 1901 |
Alford Warriner Cooley (April 9, 1873 – July 19, 1913)[1] [2] was an American attorney and judge who served as a justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court from 1909 to 1910.[3]
Born in Westchester, New York, Cooley graduated from Harvard College in 1895 and from Columbia Law School in 1897.[1] [2] He served as an inspector of common schools in New York from 1896 to 1898, and gained admission to the New York bar in 1898. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1900 to 1901.[1] He was clerk of the surrogate court of Westchester County from 1901 to 1903, a United States civil service commissioner from 1903 to 1906, and an assistant attorney general of the United States from 1906 to 1909.[1] [2] In 1909, he was appointed to the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt, but resigned after less than two years due to failing health.[2] He then traveled back to the East Coast for treatment, in a car provided by former ambassador Larz Anderson.[2]
On December 1, 1904, he married Susan Dexter in Boston, with whom he had one son.[1] [2]
Cooley died of tuberculosis, from which he had suffered for several years, at his summer home in Topsfield, Massachusetts at the age of 40.[1] [2]