Author, Editor and Politician. He is best known as a humorist. He moved from North Carolina to Alabama at age twenty. His first published work was "Taking the Census in Alabama" in 1843. He became nationally known as the creator of Simon Suggs in 1844. Mark Twain later used that character as a role model for some of his work. Included in Hooper's works are "Some Adventures of Simon Suggs", "Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers" and "The Widow Rugby's Husband". He was the Editor of the "East Alabamian". He was appointed Secretary to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States and moved with the Congress from Montgomery to Richmond, Virginia.
Author, Editor and Politician. He is best known as a humorist. He moved from North Carolina to Alabama at age twenty. His first published work was "Taking the Census in Alabama" in 1843. He became nationally known as the creator of Simon Suggs in 1844. Mark Twain later used that character as a role model for some of his work. Included in Hooper's works are "Some Adventures of Simon Suggs", "Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers" and "The Widow Rugby's Husband". He was the Editor of the "East Alabamian". He was appointed Secretary to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States and moved with the Congress from Montgomery to Richmond, Virginia.
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