Stephen T. Hopkins

Stephen Tyng Hopkins ( born March 25, 1849 in New York City; † March 3, 1892 in Pleasantville, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Hopkins was born about a year after the end of the Mexican - American War in New York City. He attended the Anthon Grammar School. He then worked as an ironmonger and brokers. He moved to Catskill. In 1885 and 1886 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was in touch with several coal and iron syndicates in West Virginia and Tennessee. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the elections of 1886, for the 50th Congress Hopkins was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Girard Lindsley on March 4, 1887. He retired after the March 3, 1889 out of the Congress.

Hopkins worked from 9 April until his resignation on August 15, 1890 as a guard at the Customs House in New York City. He was found dead on March 3, 1892 along the railroad tracks in Pleasantville, adjacent to Atlantic City, by train crews. His body was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.