What is Perry O. Hooper, Sr.?
{{Infobox officeholder |name= Perry Oliver Hooper, Sr. |image=Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper, Sr. First Republican Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.jpg |office=27th [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Alabama Supreme Court]] |termstart=October 20, 1995 |termend=January 15, 2001 |predecessor=[[Ernest C. Hornsby]] |successor=[[Roy Moore]] |office2 = Circuit Judge, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in [[Montgomery County, Alabama|Montgomery County]], [[Alabama]] |termstart2 =1974 |termend2 = 1983 |predecessor2 = |office3=Probate Judge, Montgomery County, Alabama |termstart3=1965 |termend3=1974 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|4|8}} |birth_place =[[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|4|24|1925|4|8}} |death_place = [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], Alabama, U.S. |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |occupation=[[Lawyer]]; [[Judge]] |residence=[[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], Alabama |parents =Ernest and Mary Lou Perry Hooper |spouse=Marilyn Yost Hooper |children =[[Perry O. Hooper, Jr.]]<br> Walter Hooper<br> Earle Conwell Hooper, Sr.<br> John Hooper<br> Nine grandchildren |alma_mater=[[Birmingham-Southern College]]<br> [[University of Alabama Law School]] |branch=[[United States Marine Corps]] |rank= |footnotes= }} '''Perry Oliver Hooper, Sr.''' (April 8, 1925 &ndash; April 24, 2016), was an [[Americans|American]] [[jurist]]. He served as the twenty-seventh [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Alabama Supreme Court]] from 1995 to 2001. He was the first [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] since [[Reconstruction era in the United States|Reconstruction]] to have been elected to his state's highest court. Hooper died at his home in [[Montgomery, Alabama]] on April 24, 2016, aged 91.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.waff.com/story/31803474/former-alabama-supreme-court-chief-justice-perry-hooper-dies-at-91 |title=Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper dies at 91 |access-date=2016-04-25 |archive-date=2016-05