J. Murray Hooker

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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Murray Hooker attended the common schools and then completed the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. After a subsequent law degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, and his 1896 was admitted as a lawyer in Stuart, he began to work in this profession. After that, he was District Attorney in Patrick County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1901 and 1902 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Virginia. From 1901 to 1906 he was a member of the governing body of the Virginia Military Institute; 1908-1914 he was a member of the Fisheries Commission of his state.

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

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Hooker was 1925 state chairman of his party in Virginia in the year. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 6, 1940 in Stuart.