Johnson J. Hooper
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Johnson J. Hooper (c.1815-1863) was an American humorist, born in North Carolina. He moved to Alabama where he edited a newspaper and practiced law. He was secretary of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
In 1845 he published the Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, broadly, cruelly, and uncouthly humorous, yet one of the raciest books of its time, descriptive of a gambling sharp of the Southwest in the "flush times". His Widow Rugby's Husband and Other Tales of Alabama (1851) was less successful.
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