Robert Lettis Hooper was elected to the eighth New Jersey General Assembly (1721-1725 Legislative Session), representing the Somerset County Constituency.
[1] He was commissioned as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court on January 1, 1724/5 (O. S.) and took the bench on March 30, 1725.
Hooper would serve as Chief Justice until his death, with the exception of a brief interruption in 1728, when Gov.
William Burnet had named Thomas Farmar to the post; Hooper was reinstated the following year.
[2] One of the more prominent cases heard by the Hooper Court was Lithgow v. Schuyler in 1734, in which the East New Jersey Proprietors attempt to oust a settler from land in Elizabethtown was defeated by a jury.