Johnson J. Hooper
American humorist; author of "The Widow Rugby's Husband"
Johnson Jones Hooper (June 9, 1815 – June 7, 1862) was an American lawyer and writer from Alabama known for his humorist works set in what was then known as the Southwest of America, particularly the collection of stories published as Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845). This gained him a national reputation. A secessionist, he was appointed in 1861 as secretary of the Provisional Confederate Congress and moved to Richmond, Virginia with it before his death from tuberculosis.
Quotes
edit- It is good to be shifty in a new country.
- Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845)
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