J. Murray Hooker

J. Murray Hooker (1921)

James Murray Hooker (born October 29, 1873 in Buffalo Ridge , Patrick County , Virginia , †  August 6, 1940 in Stuart , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1925 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Murray Hooker attended public schools in his home country and then graduated from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg . After a subsequent law degree at Washington and Lee University in Lexington and his admission to the bar in 1896, he began to work in this profession in Stuart. He was then also a district attorney in Patrick County. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1901 and 1902 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Virginia Constitution. From 1901 to 1906 he was a member of the governing body of the Virginia Military Institute ; between 1908 and 1914 he was a member of his state's fisheries commission.

After the death of MP Rorer A. James , Hooker was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the fifth seat of Virginia , where he took up his new mandate on November 8, 1921. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1925 . In 1924 he decided not to run again. In the same year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Hooker served as his party's state chairman in Virginia in 1925. Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 6, 1940 in Stuart.

Web links

• J. Murray Hooker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Murray Hooker in the Databank Find a Grave (English)