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William A. Hooe (Mercer County, KY, attorney, state rep & state senator)

b. 1821? d. 1869?

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Virginia native. Married to Nancy McAfee Hooe. Father of Joseph A. Hooe, Mary Jennie Hooe, Edward B. Hooe, Robert M. Hooe, William A. Hooe Jr., Emmet M. Hooe, Frank Hooe, and Nannie Hooe. Married to Sue Burford Hooe. Father of Willie Hooe and John A. Hooe. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1843 and 1849. Attorney in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1853. Attorney in Harrodsburg in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Harrodsburg in 1860. Mayor of Harrodsburg in 1861. Organized the Mercer Home Guard with Christopher Chinn in June 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 273A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 18 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, pp. 711-12.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 6.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7020659: All Counties, Mercer County Deaths, p. 514, File #24006.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 603-04.

KYR-0001-004-0368.

KYR-0002-022-0125.

Citation

Hooe, William A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205184 (November 12, 2026).

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