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	John Lee Hooker, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Hooker heard Memphis calling while he was still in his teens, but he couldn't gain much of a foothold there.
		Hooker became the point man for the growing Detroit blues scene during this incredibly prolific period, recruiting guitarist Eddie Kirkland as his frequent duet partner while still recording for Modern.
		Once again, Hooker was resting on his laurels by allowing his guests to wrest much of the spotlight away from him on his own album, but by then, he'd earned it.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10559/10559805.html (1034 words)

	John Jay Hooker - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hooker was also intimately involved around the same time with the Frist family and others in the formation of what became the first major for-profit health care chain, the Hospital Corporation of America.
		Hooker remains a gadfly, running for Congress in 2002 and again suing all his opponents, and most recently for Chancery Court judge in 2004 as an Independent, receiving approximately 13% of the vote.
		Hooker is appealing, in part on the grounds that, as someone subject to periodic reelection, Kurtz is an interested party in the suit and therefore incompetent to rule on it.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/John_Jay_Hooker (2335 words)

	JOHN JAY'S STOP-BUSH PLOY :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: Jackson Baker :: Politics
		Erstwhile gubernatorial canddidate John Jay Hooker went into U. District Court in Nashville over the weekend and threw a temporary monkey wrench into the machinery that was to declare that Gov. George W. Bush carried Tennessee in the November presidential election.
		Hooker said the judge indicated to him that he was ruling from the bench so Hooker could immediately begin his appeal to the Sixth U. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
		Hooker has twice won the Democratic nomination for governor in Tennessee and lost each time in the general election.
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=6646 (612 words)

	It's Hooker v. World, once again \| The Law \| NashvillePost.com - Nashville Business News
		If it all sounds familiar, that's because Hooker filed a lawsuit in 1996 to challenge the way State Supreme Court justices are chosen by the governor and retained in office by elections.
		Hooker was once considered a rising star in state and even national politics.
		Hooker's storied business career, meanwhile, has had him present at the creation of for-profit hospital giant HCA, which went on to great success, and a nationwide network of fried chicken franchises named for country comedienne Minnie Pearl, which collapsed spectacularly in 1969.
	www.nashvillepost.com /news/2006/8/7/its_emhooker_v_worldem_once_again (590 words)

	John Jay Hooker Blog
		John Jay Hooker was born in Nashville in 1930, son of John Jay Hooker Sr., a famous trial lawyer, and grandchild of Henry Williamson, a signer of the Constitution of Tennessee (1870).
		Hooker attended Palmer grammar school and graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy, then attended the University of the South at Sewanee for three years.
		Hooker has been credited with causing the Department of Justice to become involved in that case.
	johnjayhooker.net /blog/about.php (801 words)

	John Lee Hooker
		Hooker was born on August 22, 1917, to a sharecropping family in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
		Hooker appeared in The Blues Brothers movie, sang the title role on Pete Townshend’s concept album The Iron Man, and has duetted with Van Morrison.
		August 22, 1917: John Lee Hooker was born to a sharecropping family in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
	www.rockhall.com /hof/inductee.asp?id=120 (483 words)

	Press Room \| Barrett, Johnston & Parsely (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There was John Jay Hooker, a serial candidate for Tennessee governor and the U.S. Senate, a newspaper publisher, temporary multimillionaire, buddy to Muhammad Ali and eloquent warrior against the corruption of democracy.
		Hooker's father, John J. Hooker Sr., was a flamboyant and highly effective attorney involved in some of the most famous cases in Nashville's history.
		Hooker knows that many of his classmates think that his crusades for campaign finance reform and assorted other causes are the hallmarks of a foolish old man. But that seems to motivate him more.
	www.barrettjohnston.com /PressRoom.aspx?ID=16 (4506 words)

	John Jay Hooker - Profile
		His mother is Darthula Hooker June, a descendent of Governor William Blount, a signer of the U.S. Constitution (1787) and President of the Constitutional Convention of Tennessee (1796).
		John Jay has four grown children and is presently single.
		As such he was involved in the case of Baker vs Carr, a Tennessee case that ultimately became known as the "One-Man-One-Vote case." Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren called it the most important case ever decided by the Warren court.
	johnjayhooker.net /profile.html (779 words)

	John Jay Hooker Center For Justice At The Ballot Box - Public Interest Lawsuits
		John Jay Hooker Center For Justice At The Ballot Box - Public Interest Lawsuits
		JOHN JAY HOOKER V. LAMAR ALEXANDER, et al,
		JOHN JAY HOOKER V. STARLING, LYNN GREER, EDDIE BRYAN and JAMES FARRELL, MAYOR BILL PURCELL, KARL DEAN, and the METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
	johnjayhooker.net /lawsuits.html (90 words)

	John Jay Hooker - editor's picks
		To say that John Jay Hooker is a polarizing figure in Tennessee politics would be an understatement.
		But for others, Hooker is a man of note, not only for holding a definite place in 20th century Tennessee state history, but for the cause he fights for today: campaign finance reform.
		In 1962, Hooker argued as a part of a team in the "One Man, One Vote" decision in the case Baker v.
	media.www.versusmag.org /media/storage/paper584/news/2003/10/22/EditorsPicks/John-Jay.Hooker-547192.shtml?norewrite200604291807&sourcedomain=www.versusmag.org (382 words)

	State seeks to throw out John Jay Hooker's suit - Saturday, 05/26/01 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hooker told Davidson County Circuit Judge Carol Soloman that the possibility Bredesen will use part of his fortune for the campaign is keeping U.S. Rep. Bob Clement and other potential candidates from entering the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002.
		Hooker filed suit last month, seeking a court order requiring state election officials to enforce a $250,000 cap on personal spending for a state office.
		Hooker, who has filed several unsuccessful lawsuits over what he calls corruption in the way political campaigns are financed, said he may run for governor again next year, but only to focus attention on campaign finance.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/01/04/05282887.shtml?Element_ID=5282887 (401 words)

	Hooker's concept is geared to fast food's future - John Jay Hooker Nation's Restaurant News - Find Articles
		John Jay Hooker wants to lead the vanguard of change.
		But for the founder of Minnie Pearl Fried Chicken, former publisher of the Nashville Banner (for two years), chairman of STP Corp. (for two years) and chairman of United Press International (for 90 days), the time appears to be near.
		Hooker cites figures showing $25 billion of food service is eaten off premises, 46% of that at home.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_v19/ai_3713900?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (611 words)

	Volunteer Voters: John Jay Hooker, You Are The Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seated in the short part of the "L", and together no less, was the illustrious John Jay Hooker, fully decked his signature fedora looking hat and seersucker pants and Drew Johnson, head of the "non-partisan", but decidedly conservative, Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
		Hooker started out his question by talking about how he had held by Harold in arms some thirty years ago and Junior in turn affectionately refered to Mr.
		Hooker schooled us stating that if the amount of money spent on politics was broken down by citizen, it would only cost each citizen twenty five dollars a year and it would open up up the process if only the government would fund it.
	www.news2wkrn.com /vv/2006/09/john_jay_hooker_you_are_the_ma.html (3614 words)

	Open Source Radio on Tennessee Senate race \| KnoxViews
		The panelists were KNS political columnist Tom Humphrey, political patriarch John Jay Hooker, blogger Rob Huddleston, and yours truly.
		John Jay is an eloquent speaker, who does tend to run on, but he is interesting.
		John Jay has that Old South, Nashville accent, and Tom has the mountain accent, and you have a nice Knoxville accent.
	www.knoxviews.com /node/2523 (761 words)

	Les Jones: John Jay Hooker at BlogNashville
		John Jay Hooker, a colorful figure in Tennessee politics, interjected during the Dave Winer session at BlogNashville and became an instant hit among bloggers.
		He was a descendant of the first Chief Justice of the United States and his namesake, John Jay, and also "Fighting Joe" Hooker, a Union general in the American Civil War whose camp-followers are said to have been the source of a well-known slang term for prostitutes which began as "Hooker's girls".
		Hooker thinks one of the few mistakes the framers made in the Constitution is lifetime appointment for Federal judges.
	www.lesjones.com /posts/002082.shtml (683 words)

	Billboard.com - Biography - John Lee Hooker
		Hooker heard Memphis calling while he was still in his teens, but he couldn't gain much of a foothold there.
		Hooker became the point man for the growing Detroit blues scene during this incredibly prolific period, recruiting guitarist Eddie Kirkland as his frequent duet partner while still recording for Modern.
		Once again, Hooker was resting on his laurels by allowing his guests to wrest much of the spotlight away from him on his own album, but by then, he'd earned it.
	www.billboard.com /bbcom/bio/index.jsp?&pid=1309 (1033 words)

	Pith in the Wind--Nashville Scene Weblog
		I ran into John Jay Hooker today and asked him in passing what to do in Iraq.
		It was a reminder that the John Jay Hooker who has been so often caricatured in the press is still a brilliant and original thinker.
		John Jay Hooker is indeed a brilliant man, and I can only regret that he continues to pursue a couple of his theories in an almost-obsessive way, to the end that he is regarded as just-short-of-a-lunatic by so many people.
	www.nashvillescene.com /blog/pitw/archives/00001303.shtml (193 words)

	My Quiet Life » John Jay Hooker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was a descendant of the first Chief Justice of the United States and his namesake, John Jay, and also “Fighting Joe” Hooker, a Union general in the American Civil War whose camp-followers are said to have been the source of a well-known slang term for prostitutes which began as “Hooker’s girls”.
		John Jay Hooker has been (and still is, to some degree) one of the most colorful people in Tennessee politics.
		John Jay Hooker, a colorful figure in Tennessee politics, interjected during the Dave Winer conference at BlogNashville.
	chris.quietlife.net /2005/05/07/john-jay-hooker (386 words)

	John Jay Hooker - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Hooker was born to relative wealth and privilege into one of the Nashville area's more prominent families.
		Hooker always claimed to have been the first and primary counsellor in Perot's decision to run for States President in 1992.
		(This was litigated to the Supreme Court level and Hooker's views were not upheld.) In 1995 he even sued President Bill Clinton, as well as all of the other presidential candidates, for accepting campaing contributions, which according to his theory were sheer bribery.
	www.music.us /education/J/John-Jay-Hooker.htm (2533 words)

	Versus - John Jay Hooker
		To say that John Jay Hooker is a polarizing figure in Tennessee politics would be an understatement.
		But for others, Hooker is a man of note, not only for holding a definite place in 20th century Tennessee state history, but for the cause he fights for today: campaign finance reform.
		Some say the Hooker is after his own interests, simply trying to keep his name in the news for reasons of ego.
	www.versusmag.org /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=2368b287-f179-4f79-a71c-84a15740d24d (1525 words)

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