Biography
Hooper was born out of wedlock to Sarah Wade in Newport in Cocke County in eastern Tennessee. His father, Lemuel Washington Hooper, I, was a physician. Ben and his mother moved to what is now Jefferson City, then New Market, and finally Knoxville, Tennessee. There, his mother placed him in the St. John's Orphanage, operated by the Episcopal Church. When he was nine, young Ben was legally adopted by his father, who named him Hooper and reared him in Newport as a Baptist.
Hooper graduated in 1890 from Baptist-affiliated Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City. He then studied the law under Judge Horace Nelson Cate, and four years later was admitted to the bar.
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