Johnson J. Hooper

[1] 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.

[5] Intensely political, Hooper supported secession of Alabama and other slave states, and in 1861 was appointed secretary of the Provisional Confederate Congress.

[6] He moved with the Confederate government to Richmond, Virginia, where he died from the effects of tuberculosis in 1862[citation needed] (not 1861, as incorrectly indicated on the state historical marker).

[7] Thomas A. Burke dedicated his book of humorous tales, Polly Peablossom's Wedding (1854), to Hooper.

[8] David Handlin ranked Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs as number 9 in his article "One Hundred Best American Novels, 1770 to 1985" (2014).

Johnson Jones Hooper by an unknown artist
A historic marker in Dadeville, Alabama notes the significance of Hooper and his famous character Simon Suggs, a fictional native of Dadeville.