Johnson J. Hooper (c. 1815-1863) was an American humorist, born in North Carolina. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A humorist is a person who writes or performs humorous material North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States He moved to Alabama where he edited a newspaper and practiced law. Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. He was secretary of the Provisional Confederate Congress. The Provisional Confederate Congress, for a time the legislative branch of the Confederate States of America, was the body which drafted the Confederate Constitution
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". Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common His Widow Rugby's Husband and Other Tales of Alabama (1851) was less successful.
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