Richard W. Hoffman

Richard William Hoffman ( born December 23, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, † July 6, 1975 in Maywood, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1957 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Hoffman took part in the First World War and then worked in the publishing and printing industry. In Chicago, he was the owner and operator of some radio stations. Between 1933 and 1936, and again from 1939 to 1948 he served on the Board of Education of J. Sterling Morton High School. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1948, Hoffman was in the tenth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ralph E. Church on January 3, 1949. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1957 four legislative sessions. In this time of the beginning of the Cold War, the Korean War and domestic politics, the civil rights movement fell.

In 1956, Richard Hoffman gave up a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities on again. He died on July 6, 1975 in Maywood.