Thomas Hooker, Jr., is a well known representative of the New Haven bar, practicing as a member of the firm of Bristol & White. He was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, July 26, 1882, his parents being Thomas and Sarah (Bowles) Hooker, the former the president of the First National Bank of New Haven. On the ancestral record appear many distinguished names. He is a descendant of Thomas Hooker, founder of the Connecticut colony; of Jonathan Edwards; of Timothy Dwight, the first president of Yale; and of Samuel Bowles, the founder and editor of the Springfield Republican.

  Thomas Hooker, Jr., is both a Yale and a Harvard man. He was graduated from the former university with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1903 and from the Harvard University Law School in 1906 with the LL. B. degree. He at once entered upon the practice of law. In 1912 he became a member of the firm of White, Daggett & Hooker and in 1913 this firm merged with Bristol, Stoddard & Fisher under the present firm style of Bristol & White, who occupy a very prominent position in the ranks of the legal fraternity in New Haven.

  On the 14th of September, 1915, at Rye Beach, New Hampshire, Mr. Hooker was united in marriage to Miss Emily M. Morgan, a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. George Brinley Morgan, of New Haven, who have now passed away. Her father was rector of Christ church of New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Hooker have become the parents of one son, Thomas Hooker III.

  In politics Mr. Hooker is a republican and has been a member of the board of finance of the city of New Haven since the 1st of February, 1914. He belongs to the Delta Kappa Epsilon and he also has membership in Elihu Club of Yale University, in the Graduates Club, in the New Haven Lawn Club, in the New Haven Country Club, the Yale Club of New York, the Society of Colonial Wars and is a member of Center church of New Haven, serving from 1911 until 1916 as treasurer of the parish. On the 7th of April, 1917, he became a member of the Home Guard and thus displayed the same spirit of patriotism and of loyalty which has ever been characteristic of his ancestors and has placed distinguished names on the pages of American history. Outside of his profession he is perhaps most active in connection with charitable and benevolent work. He is the president of the Organized Charities Association of New Haven and is a director of various charitable institutions. He is likewise a director of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and in a word, his aid and influence are ever given to those measures and movements which are seeking the uplift of the individual and the betterment of the community.