Johnson Jones Hooper was an American

United States

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 humorist, born in Wilmington, North Carolina

Wilmington, North Carolina

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. He moved to Dadeville

Dadeville, Alabama

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, Alabama

Alabama

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 where he edited a newspaper and practiced law. He was secretary of the Provisional Confederate Congress

Provisional Confederate Congress

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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." His Widow Rugby's Husband and Other Tales of Alabama (1851) was less successful.