Preceded by William Appleton |
U.S. House of Representatives Massachusetts 5th congressional district December 2, 1861 – March 3, 1863 |
Succeeded by John B Alley |
Preceded by Alexander H Rice |
U.S. House of Representatives Massachusetts 4th congressional district March 4, 1863 – February 14, 1875 |
Succeeded by Josiah G Abbott |
Samuel Hooper (February 3, 1808 – February 14, 1875) was a businessman and two-term member of Congress from Massachusetts.
Hooper was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. His father, Robert Hooper, was a shipping merchant and later served as president of the Grand Bank of Marblehead. After a common school education, Hooper traveled aboard his father's shipping vessels as supercargo. He is known to have visited Cuba, Russia, and Spain.[1]
He is not the son of John Hooper born in 1776.
In 1832 Hooper married Ann Sturgis, daughter of William Sturgis, and he became a junior partner in the Boston firm of Bryant and Sturgis, merchants in the California hide trade, trade with the Pacific Northwest, and trade with China. Children:[2]
1850 United States Census - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Name | Sex | Age.Birthplace | |
Saml Hooper | M | 40 | Massachusetts |
Anna Hooper | F | 37 | Massachusetts |
W L Hooper | M | 17 | Massachusetts |
Ann M Hooper | F | 14 | Massachusetts |
Alice Hooper | F | 9 | Massachusetts |
Nancy Abbott | F | 60 | Massachusetts |
Margaret Powers | F | 33 | Massachusetts |
M A Dowden | F | 29 | Ireland |
He died 14 Feb 1875 at Washington, District of Columbia.[3]
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