Biography

12/03/1804 - 04/18/1841

HOOK, Enos, a Representative from Greene County; born, December 3, 1804 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa.; attorney (1826-1841); gubernatorial appointee, deputy attorney general, Greene County (1830); gubernatorial appointee, prothonotary and clerk of the courts, Greene County (1832-1835); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1837-1838 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House; president, Waynesburg Bank (1838); elected United States Congress (1839-1841); resigned from Congress, April 18, 1841; died, July 15, 1841 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania; interred, Green Mount Cemetery, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania.