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Born '''Lendrum De West Murrelle Jr.''' changed by adoption to '''DeWest Hooker'''<ref>[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=billjim&id=I12459 Descendants of John Beecher 1594-1637]</ref> also '''West Hooker''' and '''Wes Hooker''' (June 14, 1918- September 22, 1999) was an associate of and lobbyist for [[George Lincoln Rockwell]], the founder the [[American Nazi Party]]. Hooker convinced Rockwell that an open ‘[[Nazi]]’ approach would be needed in facing the jews directly. 

Before Hooker met Rockwell, he recruited youths in New York City forming the [[National Youth League]].<ref>''American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party'', by Frederick James Simonelli, page 26</ref> Later he organized the [[Fascist Party of the U.S.A.]] in 1954 to push the [[Republican Party]] further to the [[right-wing politics|right]].<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/foia_Fascist_Conservative_Party-Wernecke-NYC-1/Fascist_Conservative_Party-Wernecke-NYC-1#page/n20/mode/1up FBI file]</ref> Hooker originally thought to take over the [[National Renaissance Party]] in New York but found the group had been thoroughly infiltrated by jewish interests.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/foia_Fascist_Conservative_Party-Wernecke-NYC-1/Fascist_Conservative_Party-Wernecke-NYC-1#page/n21/mode/1up FBI file]</ref>

In 1953 Hooker hosted "Facts Forum", a fascist guest-speaker event based in Larchmont, New York.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/foia_Thompson_Jr._H._Keith-NYC-1/Thompson_Jr._H._Keith-NYC-1#page/n131/mode/1up FBI file of HK Thompson]</ref>

==Business career==
In 1952 became an independent film producer owning several companies.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/foia_Fascist_Conservative_Party-Wernecke-NYC-1/Fascist_Conservative_Party-Wernecke-NYC-1#page/n22/mode/1up FBI file]</ref>

DeWest Hooker was an oil broker and president of the Independent Refining Cooperative Inc. 

In 1957 Hooker left the US to own and manage a 7- Up franchise in northern Italy.<ref>[http://www.counter-currents.com/2012/04/dewest-hooker-portrait-of-a-radical/ DeWest Hooker: Portrait of a Radical]</ref>

In the past he produced syndicated television programs.

==Personal==
DeWest Hooker was born in Memphis and graduated from Cornell University. Hooker has roots that went back to a wealthy New York family.<ref>''American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party'', by Frederick James Simonelli, page 26</ref> He was once married to Mary Glyde Barbey.

DeWest Hooker is buried at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Cemetery in Port Conway, Virginia.<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hooker&GSiman=1&GScid=154696&GRid=22959318& DeWest Hooker at Find A Grave]</ref>

==See also==
* [[William B. Wernecke]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.counter-currents.com/2012/04/dewest-hooker-portrait-of-a-radical/ DeWest Hooker: Portrait of a Radical]
* [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-603972.html OBITUARIES The Washington Post | September 27, 1999]