Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr.

Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr
Vice President of the New Jersey Legislative Council
In office 1785–1788
Governor	William Livingston
Preceded by	Philemon Dickinson
Succeeded by	Elisha Lawrence
Personal details
Born	c.1730
Died	July 30, 1797 Trenton, New Jersey
Spouse(s)	Margaret Biles, Elizabeth Erskine

Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr (c.1730 – July 30, 1797) was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, later a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council, of which he was Vice President.

Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr was born about 1730 and was the third in succession to bear that name. His grandfather, Robert Lettis Hooper, had been Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, among other political offices. His great-grandfather Daniel Hooper, a native of Barbados, was a judge in Elizabethtown and Newark, and was of the East New Jersey Provincial Council.

A miller, he was later a merchant in Philadelphia, but owing to financial problems he closed his business.

Traveling west, Hooper visited with Sir William Johnson in June, 1765. Afterwards he engaged in surveying for the proposed Colony of Vandalia, and was an applicant for its Surveyor General if a government was established. Although this position never materialized, it led to Hooper being appointed by Governor William Franklin to report on the country he had surveyed.

During the 1770s, Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr lived at various times in Philadelphia, Northampton County, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey. It was in Philadelphia where, having observed troops training in August 1775, that Hooper was won over to the Revolutionary cause.

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