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{{Infobox officeholder
|image =Perry O. Hooper, Jr., of AL.jg
|name= Perry Oliver Hooper, Jr.
|office=[[Alabama]] State Representative for District 73 (Montgomery County)
|birth_date=October 5, 1954
|birth_place=[[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], Alabama, USA
|spouse=Judy McKissick Hooper
|children=Perry O. Hooper, III<br>
Thomas Clement Hooper<br>
Davis Shaw Hooper<br>
Perry O. Hooper, Sr.<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Perry O. Hooper, Sr.<br>
Marilyn Yost Hooper
|residence=Montgomery, Alabama
|party=[[Republican Party|Republiican]]
|occupation=[[Insurance]] agent
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Auburn University at Montgomery<br>
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
}}
'''Perry Oliver Hooper, Jr.''' (born October 5, 1954), is an [[insurance]] agent from his native [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[Alabama]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] former state representative for District 73,, a post which he filled from 1984 until 2003. After five terms, he was defeated in the [[primary]] election held on June 4, 2002.
==Background==
Hooper is the oldest of four sons of Perry O. Hooper, Sr. (1925-2016), the former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the 1968 Republican nominee for the [[United States Senate]]. His mother is the former Marilyn Yost (born c. 1933). He received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University at Montgomery and his [[Juris Doctor]]ate from the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, affiliated with Faulkner University, also in Montgomery.<ref name=campaigns/> It is unclear if he has ever practiced law.
Hooper is a vice president of the Palomar Insurance Corporation. He is married to the former Judy McKissick, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Clement McKissick, formerly of Montgomery. Judy Hooper has been a teacher at the Trinity [[Presbyterian]] School in Montgomery, affiliated with the Trinity Presbyterian Church.<ref name=campaigns/> Hooper is [[United Methodist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/5664/perry-hooper-jr#.U2CdkstOUfg|title=Perry Hooper Jr.'s Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref>
The couple has three sons: (1) Perry Hooper, III, an optometrist, who is married to
Dr. Marsa True Beck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Taylor Beck of [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]], named for her aunt, Marsa Susan Beck of [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]], (2) Davis Shaw Hooper of Auburn, Alabama, ]], Alabama, and (3) Thomas Clement Hooper of Montgomery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/celebration/timesdispatch/celebrations-announcement.aspx?n=perry-oliver-hooper-iii&aid=165900764|title=Wedding Announcement: Perry Oliver Hooper, III, and Marsa True Beck|date=July 21, 2013|publisher=''The Richmond Times-Dispatch''|accessdate=April 30, 2014}}</ref>
==Political life==
In 1982, Hooper ran for the District 81 state House seat vacated by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Larry Dixon, who was elected to the state Senate and switched to Republican affiliation in 1984. He was narrowly defeated by another Democrat, Ham Wilson, Jr., who received 7,996 votes (50.9 percent) to Hooper's 7,725 (49.1 percent). In a [[special election]] in District 73 in 1983, a result of [[redistricting]], he narrowly unseated Wilson, 4,518 (51.1 percent) to 4,328 (48.9 percent) to fill the remaining three years of the term. Hooper was unopposed for reelection in 1986 and won with 64.1 percent in 1990 over the Democrat Robert Finley. Hooper increased his margin in 1994 to 73.3 percent over another Democrat, Ray Vaughan. He won re-nomination in 1998 over fellow Republican Donald Blair Little (1954-2012), an attorney in Montgomery and a son of Republican former state Representative Tandy Little. Hooper had no Democratic opponent in 1998 for what turned out to be his last four-year term in the state House. Hooper lost in the 2002 primary to fellow Republican David Grimes, 3,582votes (52.3 percent) to 3,273 (47.8 percent). Grimes was then unopposed in the [[general election]] of 2002 but lost the Republican primary in 2008.<ref name=campaigns/>Hooper's defeat by Grimes is attributed in part to a $12,000 fine that he received in 2001 from the Alabama Ethics Commission.<ref name=ddaily>{{cite web|url=http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060716/loyalty.shtml|title=Candidates in GOP runoff for PSC 2 question loyalty|publisher=''Decatur (Alabama) Daily'',|date=July 16, 2006|accessdate=April 30, 2014}}</ref>
Hooper was a delegate to the [[Republican National Convention]]s of 1984, 1992, and 1996. He served on the Platform Committee in 1992, with the re-nomination of the [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]]-[[Dan Quayle|Quayle]] ticket, and the Rules Committee in 1996, when the party turned to veteran [[Kansas]] [[U.S. Senator]][[Bob Dole]].<ref name=campaigns>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=61173|title=Hooper, Jr., Perry O.|publisher=ourcampaigns.com|accessdate=April 30, 2014}}</ref>
Hooper failed in a political comeback in 2006 though he won the Republican nomination with 58 percent of the vote for the Place 2 seat on the Alabama Public Service Commission vacated by Democrat-turned Republican George Wallace, Jr. Hooper defeated a former state senator, Democrat-turned-Republican John Amari, a lawyer from the [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] [[suburb]] of Trussville, to win the Republican nomination for the Public Service Commission. Hooper was thereafter defeated in the general election by the Democratic former state auditor, Susan Parker, 633,584 (53.5 percent), to 550,435 (46.4 percent).<ref name=campaigns/> Amari served twenty years in both houses of the legislature and was elected in 2008 as a judge of the Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit Court. In the 2006 campaign, Hooper dubbed Amari a [[RINO]], "Republican in name only." Amari replied that Hooper "might have been born in a Republican family, but [by] his conduct ... he has 'left his raising' as they say."<ref name=ddaily/>
In 1987 at the age of thirty-three, Hooper was named "Outstanding Young Man of Alabama" by the Jaycees. He received the [[Thomas Jefferson]] Free Enterprise Award from the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC), a group of [[conservative]] lawmakers and businesses. A coach of youth athletics, Hooper is a former "Man of the Year" by the [[YMCA]] of Montgomery. He is affiliated with Kiwanis International, the Southern Development Council, and the Montgomery County Republican Committee.<ref name=campaigns/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Jr., Perry O.}}
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
|image =Perry O. Hooper, Jr., of AL.jg
|name= Perry Oliver Hooper, Jr.
|office=[[Alabama]] State Representative for District 73 (Montgomery County)
|birth_date=October 5, 1954
|birth_place=[[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], Alabama, USA
|spouse=Judy McKissick Hooper
|children=Perry O. Hooper, III<br>
Thomas Clement Hooper<br>
Davis Shaw Hooper<br>
Perry O. Hooper, Sr.<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Perry O. Hooper, Sr.<br>
Marilyn Yost Hooper
|residence=Montgomery, Alabama
|party=[[Republican Party|Republiican]]
|occupation=[[Insurance]] agent
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Auburn University at Montgomery<br>
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
}}
'''Perry Oliver Hooper, Jr.''' (born October 5, 1954), is an [[insurance]] agent from his native [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[Alabama]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] former state representative for District 73,, a post which he filled from 1984 until 2003. After five terms, he was defeated in the [[primary]] election held on June 4, 2002.
==Background==
Hooper is the oldest of four sons of Perry O. Hooper, Sr. (1925-2016), the former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the 1968 Republican nominee for the [[United States Senate]]. His mother is the former Marilyn Yost (born c. 1933). He received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University at Montgomery and his [[Juris Doctor]]ate from the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, affiliated with Faulkner University, also in Montgomery.<ref name=campaigns/> It is unclear if he has ever practiced law.
Hooper is a vice president of the Palomar Insurance Corporation. He is married to the former Judy McKissick, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Clement McKissick, formerly of Montgomery. Judy Hooper has been a teacher at the Trinity [[Presbyterian]] School in Montgomery, affiliated with the Trinity Presbyterian Church.<ref name=campaigns/> Hooper is [[United Methodist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/5664/perry-hooper-jr#.U2CdkstOUfg|title=Perry Hooper Jr.'s Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref>
The couple has three sons: (1) Perry Hooper, III, an optometrist, who is married to
Dr. Marsa True Beck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Taylor Beck of [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]], named for her aunt, Marsa Susan Beck of [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]], (2) Davis Shaw Hooper of Auburn, Alabama, ]], Alabama, and (3) Thomas Clement Hooper of Montgomery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/celebration/timesdispatch/celebrations-announcement.aspx?n=perry-oliver-hooper-iii&aid=165900764|title=Wedding Announcement: Perry Oliver Hooper, III, and Marsa True Beck|date=July 21, 2013|publisher=''The Richmond Times-Dispatch''|accessdate=April 30, 2014}}</ref>
==Political life==
In 1982, Hooper ran for the District 81 state House seat vacated by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Larry Dixon, who was elected to the state Senate and switched to Republican affiliation in 1984. He was narrowly defeated by another Democrat, Ham Wilson, Jr., who received 7,996 votes (50.9 percent) to Hooper's 7,725 (49.1 percent). In a [[special election]] in District 73 in 1983, a result of [[redistricting]], he narrowly unseated Wilson, 4,518 (51.1 percent) to 4,328 (48.9 percent) to fill the remaining three years of the term. Hooper was unopposed for reelection in 1986 and won with 64.1 percent in 1990 over the Democrat Robert Finley. Hooper increased his margin in 1994 to 73.3 percent over another Democrat, Ray Vaughan. He won re-nomination in 1998 over fellow Republican Donald Blair Little (1954-2012), an attorney in Montgomery and a son of Republican former state Representative Tandy Little. Hooper had no Democratic opponent in 1998 for what turned out to be his last four-year term in the state House. Hooper lost in the 2002 primary to fellow Republican David Grimes, 3,582votes (52.3 percent) to 3,273 (47.8 percent). Grimes was then unopposed in the [[general election]] of 2002 but lost the Republican primary in 2008.<ref name=campaigns/>Hooper's defeat by Grimes is attributed in part to a $12,000 fine that he received in 2001 from the Alabama Ethics Commission.<ref name=ddaily>{{cite web|url=http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060716/loyalty.shtml|title=Candidates in GOP runoff for PSC 2 question loyalty|publisher=''Decatur (Alabama) Daily'',|date=July 16, 2006|accessdate=April 30, 2014}}</ref>
Hooper was a delegate to the [[Republican National Convention]]s of 1984, 1992, and 1996. He served on the Platform Committee in 1992, with the re-nomination of the [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]]-[[Dan Quayle|Quayle]] ticket, and the Rules Committee in 1996, when the party turned to veteran [[Kansas]] [[U.S. Senator]][[Bob Dole]].<ref name=campaigns>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=61173|title=Hooper, Jr., Perry O.|publisher=ourcampaigns.com|accessdate=April 30, 2014}}</ref>
Hooper failed in a political comeback in 2006 though he won the Republican nomination with 58 percent of the vote for the Place 2 seat on the Alabama Public Service Commission vacated by Democrat-turned Republican George Wallace, Jr. Hooper defeated a former state senator, Democrat-turned-Republican John Amari, a lawyer from the [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] [[suburb]] of Trussville, to win the Republican nomination for the Public Service Commission. Hooper was thereafter defeated in the general election by the Democratic former state auditor, Susan Parker, 633,584 (53.5 percent), to 550,435 (46.4 percent).<ref name=campaigns/> Amari served twenty years in both houses of the legislature and was elected in 2008 as a judge of the Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit Court. In the 2006 campaign, Hooper dubbed Amari a [[RINO]], "Republican in name only." Amari replied that Hooper "might have been born in a Republican family, but [by] his conduct ... he has 'left his raising' as they say."<ref name=ddaily/>
In 1987 at the age of thirty-three, Hooper was named "Outstanding Young Man of Alabama" by the Jaycees. He received the [[Thomas Jefferson]] Free Enterprise Award from the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC), a group of [[conservative]] lawmakers and businesses. A coach of youth athletics, Hooper is a former "Man of the Year" by the [[YMCA]] of Montgomery. He is affiliated with Kiwanis International, the Southern Development Council, and the Montgomery County Republican Committee.<ref name=campaigns/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Jr., Perry O.}}
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]