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Representative John F. Hopkins View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 4/19/1909
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 13 (1870)
Home County: Boone
John F. Hopkins
Boone County

JOHN F. HOPKINS was born October 4, 1821, in Marion county, Ohio; he died at Madrid, Iowa, April 19, 1909. His father, Robert Hopkins, was a veteran of the war of 1812 and a member of the General Assembly of Ohio. His early educational advantages were meagre, but he was a great student and gained a wide knowledge through reading, experience and observation. In 1849 he made an overland trip to California, where he remained two years. He removed to Iowa about 1854, settling in Boone county. Mr. Hopkins represented Boone county in the House of the Thirteenth General Assembly and was instrumental in securing the appropriation for the present State capitol. He was for six years a member of the board of supervisors of Boone county. He was a member of the Pioneer Lawmakers’ Association, of the Octogenarian Association of the State, and took a prominent part in the organization of the Old Settlers’ Association.

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House District 42
Committees
13th GA (1870)
Legislation Sponsored
13th GA (1870)