Charles E. Hooker

Charles E. Hooker

Charles Edward Hooker (born April 9, 1825 in Union , Union County , South Carolina , † January 8, 1914 in Jackson , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1903 he repeatedly represented the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Hooker grew up in the Laurens District in South Carolina, where he also attended public schools. He then studied until 1846 at the law school of Harvard University law. After being admitted to the bar in 1848, he began practicing his new profession in Jackson, Mississippi. Between 1850 and 1854 he was a district attorney in the River District . In 1859 he became a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives . During the Civil War he went into the army of the Confederate States to the Colonel on.

In 1865 he was elected Attorney General of Mississippi, but immediately removed from the military administration of the Union Army . In 1868 he was re-elected to this office. In the meantime he worked as a lawyer. In the congressional election of 1874, Hooker was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington as the Democratic Party candidate in the fifth district of Mississippi . There he stepped on March 4, 1875 to succeed the Republican George C. McKee . After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1883 .

In 1884 Hooker was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Grover Cleveland was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In the congressional election of 1886, Hooker ran in the sixth constituency and was re-elected to the US House of Representatives to succeed Ethelbert Barksdale . In this constituency, too, he was confirmed three times, so that between March 4, 1887 and March 3, 1895, he was able to complete four more consecutive terms in Congress. In 1900 he ran again successfully in the sixth electoral district. This enabled him to spend another, his ninth, legislative period in Congress from March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1903.

After the end of his last tenure, he returned to his practice as a lawyer in Jackson. He died there in January 1914.

Web links

• Charles E. Hooker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles E. Hooker in the Databank Find a Grave (English)