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Charles Edward Hooker
Colonel in the Confederate Army and Mississippi State House Representative.
Bio and Photo Contributed by Gregory J, Speciale United States Army Veteran
January 19, 2007


Charles Edward Hooker was born 1825 in Union, Union County South Carolina.

He was a Civil War Confederate Army Officer, Politician. He was a member of Mississippi State House of Representatives in 1859 and colonel in the Rebel Army during the Civil War. He was elected attorney general of Mississippi in 1865 and was removed from office by military authorities. He was then elected Democrat to Congress and served three terms.

Col. Hooker died in 1914 in Mississippi and is buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson Hinds County Mississippi
 
 

bio by: Gregory Speciale
 
 
 
 

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