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Ben Walter Hooper (October 13, 1870 – April 18, 1957) was
governor
of the
U.S. state
of
Tennessee
from 1911 to 1915.
Hooper, who was of
illegitimate
birth, spent part of his childhood in an
orphanage
, was unofficially "
adopted
" by members of his
rural
Baptist
church
, and was belatedly acknowledged by his natural father, a prominent
physician
. He was a native of
Newport
in
Cocke County, Tennessee
. He was admitted to the
bar
in 1894, and served in the state
legislature
. He was a captain of the 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry in the
Spanish-American War
of 1898, and nominated by the
Republicans
for
governor
in 1910 over
Alfred A. Taylor
. His initial
Democratic
opponent, incumbent Governor
Malcolm R. Patterson
, despite winning the nomination withdrew from race due to diffences among Democrats, which in turn led to the nomination of
United States Senator
and three-term former
governor
Robert Love Taylor
, younger brother of
Alf Taylor
.
Then the
Prohibition
issue badly split the Democrats and a faction of them called "Independents" endorsed Hooper, the challenger for governor, leading to his election. During legislative sessions Hooper's administration employed armed guards. Nonetheless, he was reelected in 1912, but was subsequently defeated for a third term in 1914 by Democrat
Thomas C. Rye
, a Prohibition advocate. During his terms, early
child labor
laws were enacted and school attendance was made compulsory for young children provided that they lived within a realistic walking distance of a school. The method of the
death penalty
was changed from
hanging
to
electrocution
.
Hooper continued the practice of
law
after his time as governor and maintained a keen interest in public affairs and Republican politics until just before his death in 1957. He wrote an
autobiography
,
The Unwanted Boy
, and was widely regarded in
East Tennessee
as an inspirational figure.
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