The death of a state politician on M-99 three miles northeast ... Born in Los Angeles, Hooper was the great-great- grandson of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

MADISON COUNTY, Ala. – William Hooper Councill was born a slave in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but in his lifetime Councill became a teacher, a politician, an author, and the father of Alabama ...