Charles Edward Hooker (April 9, 1825 – January 8, 1914) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. Born in Union, South Carolina, Hooker was raised in Laurens District, South Carolina. He attended the common schools, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Jackson, Mississippi.He served as district attorney of the river district 1850-1854. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1859. On December 15, 1860, he was dispatched by the state of Mississippi to South Carolina as a secession commissioner, described by one Mississippi newspaper as "a fire-eater of the most ultra disunion stripe." He resigned to enter the Confederate States Army as a private during the Civil War.He became lieutenant and later c