Early Life
John Jay Hooker was born to relative wealth and privilege in one of the Nashville area's more prominent families. His father, John Jay Hooker, Sr., was one of the Nashville area's best-known and most respected attorneys, as is his brother Henry Hooker, who became his law partner in the former firm of Hooker, Hooker, and Willis. Hooker is a direct descendant of William Blount, who signed the Constitution of the United States and who was appointed by President George Washington in 1790 to be the "Governor of all the lands south of the Ohio River". In 1796, Governor Blount was elected the president of the Constitutional Convention of Tennessee.
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