Joseph L. Hooper

Joseph Lawrence Hooper (born 22 December 1877 in Cleveland, Ohio, † February 22, 1934 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1934 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1891, Joseph Hooper came with his parents to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1899 admitted to the bar he began working there in his new profession. Between 1901 and 1903 he was Court Commissioner ( Commissioner Court ) for the Calhoun County; There he functioned also from 1903 to 1907 as a district attorney. Between 1916-1918 Hooper was legal representatives of the town of Battle Creek.

Politically, Hooper member of the Republican Party. After the death of Congressman Arthur B. Williams, he was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the third seat of Michigan, where he took up his new mandate on 18 August 1925. After four elections he could remain until his death on 22 February 1934 at the Congress. Since the end of 1929 the work of the House of Representatives by the events of the Great Depression was coined. Since 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution in Congress discussed and approved.

Joseph Hooper was buried in Battle Creek.