Charles E. Hooker

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

Career

Charles Hooker grew up in Laurens District of South Carolina, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1846 at the Law Faculty of the Harvard University law. After his made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Jackson, Mississippi. Between 1850 and 1854 he was district attorney in the River District. In 1859 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Mississippi. During the Civil War he went into the Army of the Confederate States until Colonel.

In 1865 he was elected Attorney General of Mississippi, but again deposed by the military administration of the Union Army. In 1868 he was again elected to this office. In the meantime, he worked as a lawyer. In the congressional elections of 1874 Hooker was chosen as the candidate of the Democratic Party in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1875 on the succession of Republican George C. McKee. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1883 in Congress.

Hooker 1884 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the Grover Cleveland as presidential candidate of the party. In the congressional elections of 1886, Hooker was a candidate in the sixth constituency and was elected as the successor of Ethelbert Barksdale again in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also in this constituency he was confirmed three times, so that it has four more coherent legislative sessions in Congress was able to complete between 4 March 1887 to 3 March 1895. In 1900 he ran again successfully in the sixth constituency. So he could of 4 March 1901 to March 3, 1903 for a further spend his whole ninth term in Congress.

After the end of his last term, he returned to his law practice in Jackson. He is also died in January 1914.

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