Samuel I. Hopkins

Samuel Isaac Hopkins ( born December 12, 1843 in Owensville, Prince George's County, Maryland, † January 15, 1914 in Lynchburg, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Hopkins drew even during his childhood with his parents in the Anne Arundel County, where he attended the public schools. During the Civil War he served until he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in the army of the Confederacy. After the war he settled in Lynchburg, where he worked in the trade. Politically, he was a member of the Labor Party.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Hopkins was the sixth electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Daniel on March 4, 1887. Since he resigned in 1888 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1889. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Samuel Hopkins again worked commercially in Lynchburg. There he is on 15 January 1914, died.