Johnson Jones Hooper (9 June 1815-7 June 1862), lawyer, journalist, and politician, earned his place in American literature by creating Captain Simon Suggs of Tallapoosa, Alabama, a character both "en...
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Like other antebellum humorists of the Old Southwest, Johnson Jones ("Jonce") Hooper earned a livelihood through a variety of occupations. In his careers as lawyer, newspaper editor, state solicitor, ...
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Among the host of "Old Southwest" humorists who flourished during the first half of the nineteenth century, Johnson Jones Hooper looms as one of the most important and distinctive. With the publicatio...
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Johnson Jones Hooper