James Schley Hook
James Schley Hook (1824–1907) was an American jurist and Georgia state superintendent of education. Lineage 
James Schley Hook was born at Louisville, Georgia, on March 25, 1834. His father was Daniel Hook, a physician and preacher, for two years mayor of the city of Augusta, Georgia, and his mother, Catherine Schley, sister of Governor William Schley of Georgia. Life 
His father removed to Augusta, Georgia, when his son was six years old, where he received a fair and liberal education. He studied law and was admitted to the bar two months before he was eighteen years old, removed to Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, and immediately entered upon a large and lucrative practice. In 1861 he was elected a member of the state legislature and bore an active part in the legislation of the session. He volunteered his services at the outbreak of the Civil War but was not permitted to enlist because of physical disability. In 1862 he succeeded Judge William W. Holt as Judge of the Superior Courts of the Middle Circuit, holding this place until 1867. He was an elector on the Douglas and Johnson presidential ticket in 1860; was repeatedly suggested for Congress, but having little taste for political life he always urged someone else and got out of the way; was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1865; was suggested at different times for governor and for the United States Senate; removed to Augusta in 1867 and a few years later formed a law partnership with Ex-Judge W. W. Montgomery of the Supreme Court. In 1887 he was appointed state superintendent of education by Governor John B. Gordon, and upon the expiration of his term in 1890 he resumed the practice of the law in Atlanta. He died in 1907. Reputation 
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography described him in 1901: 

In a series of letters signed "Law and Order", which were widely copied in and out of the state, and highly praised, he took issue with Alexander H. Stephens for opposing Horace Greeley as the Democratic nominee for president. In The Augusta Chronicle, he printed over his own name able letters showing the distress of the farmers, declaring they were growing poorer year by year, and opposing the National Bank system as tending to enslave labor. He was an earnest student of political economy and finance and believed the National Banking system to be the greatest curse ever inflicted on the United States. He declined the Greenback nomination for Congress in the hope that the Democratic Party would correct the evils under which the country labored. His literary taste was shown in his ornate addresses before colleges. His oration on the "Bible and Republicanism" at Oglethorpe University and on "Woman and Truth" to the graduates of Wesleyan Female College, are called "magnificent efforts of eloquence and culture" by the Cyclopaedia. Personal life 
He married, in 1851, Emily J. Harris, who died in 1881; and in 1885, Mrs. Lulie C. Mays. His eldest son, Edward B. Hook, was editor of The Augusta Chronicle, and a capable newspaper man of good reputation in Georgia. References

Sources 

 Garrett, Franklin M. (1969). Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1820s–1870s. Vol. 1. Atlanta, GA: University of Georgia Press. p. 852. Hook, James William (1925). James Hook and Virginia Eller: A Family History and Genealogy. New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. pp. 53–57. ——— (1952). Capt. James Hook of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc. pp. 36–40. "Judge J. S. Hook Called to Beyond". The Atlanta Constitution. Friday, September 20, 1907. p. 7. Attribution:

External links 

 Harp, Scott (2022). "Dr. Daniel Hook". History of the Restoration Movement. Retrieved 30 July 2022. 1824 births
1907 deaths
Members of the Georgia General Assembly