Francis A. Hopkins

Francis Alexander Hopkins ( born May 27, 1853 in Jeffersonville, Tazewell County, Virginia; † June 5, 1918 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Hopkins attended the public schools of his home including the Tazewell High School. After a subsequent law degree in 1874 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Prestonsburg to work in this profession. At the same time he also worked in agriculture. Between 1882 and 1884 he served as a state representative to monitor the public schools. In 1890 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky.

Politically, Hopkins member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Bamford White on March 4, 1903. After a re-election in 1904, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907 two legislative sessions. In the 1906 elections Hopkins defeated by Republican John W. Langley. As a result, he again worked as a lawyer as well as in agriculture. In June 1916 Hopkins delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated to the president Woodrow Wilson for a second term. He died on June 5, 1918 in Prestonsburg.