{"id":2415,"date":"2013-03-20T14:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2013-10-14T08:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T15:28:06","slug":"hooper-johnson-jones-1815-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"HOOPER, JOHNSON JONES, 1815-1862"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humorist; newspaper editor; lawyer. Born– June 9, 1815, Wilmington, North Carolina.\u00a0 Parents– Archibald and Charlotte de Berniere Hooper.\u00a0 Married– Mary Mildred Brantley, 1842.\u00a0 Children–two. Read law in his brother’s law office in New Bern, Alabama, 1835-1838; admitted to the bar, 1838; practiced law in in Lafayette and Dadeville.\u00a0 Editor of the East Alabamian<\/em>, LaFayette; the Wetumpka Whig;<\/em> the Alabama Journal, <\/em>Montgomery; the Chambers County Tribune;<\/em> and the Montgomery Mail<\/em>.\u00a0 Worked as Talladega County\u00a0census taker for the 1840 census.\u00a0 Beginning in 1843 published sketches and stories in national periodicals including the Spirit of the Times<\/em> of New York City.\u00a0 Published humorous sketches of life in Alabama\u00a0which became nationally popular and were collected into several books.\u00a0\u00a0 Increasingly involved in politics in the 1850s; wrote in favor of secession and the Southern cause.\u00a0\u00a0Served as secretary of the Southern Convention in 1851; secretary of the Confederate Congress, 1861-62.\u00a0 Died June 7, 1862.<\/p>\n

Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n

American National Biography online.<\/p>\n

Bain, Robert, and Flora, Joseph M.\u00a0 Fifty Southern Writers before 1900.\u00a0 <\/em>New York; Greenwood Press, 1987.<\/p>\n

Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers… <\/em>Philadelphia; Carey and Hart, 1845.<\/p>\n

A Ride with Old Kit Kuncker, and Other Sketches and Scenes of Alabama. <\/em>Tuscaloosa; M.D. J. Slade, 1849.<\/p>\n

The Widow Rugby’s Husband, a Night at the Ugly Man’s, and Other Tales of Alabama.<\/em>\u00a0 Philadelphia; A. Hart, 1851.<\/p>\n

Read and Circulate; Proceedings of the Democratic and Anti-Know-Nothing Party in Caucus, or the Guillotine at Work.\u00a0 <\/em>Montgomery:\u00a0 Barret and Wimbish, 1855.<\/p>\n

Dog and Gun; A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting. <\/em>New York; C.M.Saxton & Co., 1856.<\/p>\n

Simon Suggs’ Adventures and Travels, Comprising All of the Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures of his Travels… with Widow Rugby’s Husband and Twenty-six other Humorous Tales of\u00a0 Alabama.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Philadelphia:\u00a0 T. B. Peterson, 1856.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of Hooper Family papers is held in the Southern History Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humorist; newspaper editor; lawyer. Born– June 9, 1815, Wilmington, North Carolina.\u00a0 Parents– Archibald and Charlotte de Berniere Hooper.\u00a0 Married– Mary Mildred Brantley, 1842.\u00a0 Children–two. Read law in his brother’s law office in New Bern, Alabama, 1835-1838; admitted to the bar, 1838; practiced law in in Lafayette and Dadeville.\u00a0 Editor of the East Alabamian, LaFayette; the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}