Walter O. Hoffecker

Walter Oakley Hoffecker (* September 20, 1854 in Smyrna, Delaware, † January 23, 1934 in Smyrna ) was an American politician. Between 1900 and 1901 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Hoffecker was the son of Congressman John H. Hoffecker. He attended the common schools in Smyrna and then until 1872 the Smyrna Seminary. From September 1873 he studied the engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania). After the end of his training Walter Hoffecker worked among other things in agriculture as well as in banking and in insurance. Following in the footsteps of his father, he became president of the Philadelphia & Smyrna Transportation Co. Later he should be president of the railway company Delaware Railroad. For 32 years he was president of Fruit Growers Bank in Smyrna.

After the death of his father on June 16, 1900 had to be held in Delaware elections for the thus freed deputy seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In these elections, Walter Hoffecker was chosen as the candidate of the Republican party with 54% of the vote to Democrat Edward Fowler succeeded his father in the U.S. Congress. There he completed between November 6, 1900, the March 3, 1901 which Unopened legislature.

In the regular congressional elections of 1900, Walter Hoffecker opted not to run again. Then he went back to his numerous business affairs. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, on the William Howard Taft was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. In 1917, Hoffecker was a member of the first motorway Committee of the State of Delaware. He died in January 1934 in his native Smyrna at the age of 79 years.