{"id":9318,"date":"2013-12-14T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:44","slug":"hooper-ben-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/hooper-ben-w\/","title":{"rendered":"HOOPER, Ben W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>City<\/strong>: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>HOOPER, Ben W.<\/strong>, Governor; born Newport, Tenn., October 13, 1870; educated Carson &amp; Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., 1890; elected representative of the Legislature in 1892-94; admitted to the bar in 1894; served as Captain of Company C., Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry 1898-9; served in Porto Rico; was Assistant United States Attorney for Eastern District of Tennessee, 1906 to 1910 and elected Governor of Tennessee in November, 1910; married <strong>Anna B. JONES<\/strong>, September 25, 1901; Republican; member Baptist Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville HOOPER, Ben W., Governor; born Newport, Tenn., October 13, 1870; educated Carson &amp; Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., 1890; elected representative of the Legislature in 1892-94; admitted to the bar in 1894; served as Captain of Company C., Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry 1898-9; served in Porto Rico; was Assistant United States Attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,162,77,4062,4419],"tags":[173,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-9318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carson-newman-college","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-h","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-hooper","12":"tag-jones","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}