John H. Hoeppel

John Henry Hoeppel (* February 10, 1881 in Tell City, Perry County, Indiana; † September 21, 1976 in Arcadia, California ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hoeppel attended the Grammar School in Evansville. Thereafter he served 1898-1921 in the U.S. Army, where he rose to the sergeant. During the First World War he served in France. After his military service Hoeppel lived in Arcadia, where he was 1923-1931 postmaster. Since 1928, he moved the " National Defense Magazine". At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Hoeppel was in the then newly established twelfth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. Since 1935 he was chairman of the Committee on War Claims. During his time in Congress, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1936 Hoeppel was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again as a publisher. In 1946, he competed unsuccessfully as a candidate of the Prohibition Party to return to Congress. He died on September 21, 1976 in Arcadia.