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William Hooper
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| Term Paper Title | William Hooper |
| # of Words | 510 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 2.04 |
William Hooper
William Hooper was born on a warm summer day on the 17 of June in 1742, and died on a very cold day on the 14 of October in 1790. As an official signer of the Decloration of Independence, Hooper grew up as a native of Boston, Mass where he was the oldest child of William and Marry Hooper. Hooper always had a dream as a child to be someone important, and he started to achive that goal when after being in preparatory education at Boston Latin School, he entered into the sophomore class of Harvard Colledge and was graduated in the year 1760. That vey next year he started to study law, this is what shaped his future.
In 1767 Hooper married Anne Clark, the daughter of Thomas Clark, one of the early settlers of Wilmington. As deputy attorney-general, he incurred the hatred of the regulators, by whome he was roughly treated, and in 1771 he was a member of the Tryon's military expedition against them. In 1773 he was elected to the Assembly from the borough of Campbellton, and by election from New Hanover County, and there is where he remained untill the royal goverment was overthrone. He then was placed on the Committee of Correspondence, and whe the Boston Port Bill was passed, he led the movement to send relief. He also was elected for all five congresses in which in all but the last, he was an active lea
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