He was a Mormon pioneer and moved to Utah Territory in 1850 and settled in Salt Lake City.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress, being defeated by John Milton Bernhisel.

On October 10, 1867, Hooper became a member of the Council of Fifty of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Hooper was superintendent of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) from 1873 to 1877, and its president from 1877 to 1882.

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