William F. Kopp

William Frederick Kopp ( * June 20, 1869 in Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa; † August 24, 1938 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Kopp attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1892, the Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa and its made ​​in 1894 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Pleasant Mount. Between 1895 and 1899 was Kopp District Attorney in Henry County. From 1906 to 1914 he was postmaster of the town of Mount Pleasant, and from 1908 to 1938, he served as curator of the Iowa Wesleyan College.

Kopp was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1915 and 1917 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. In 1920 he was the first electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles A. Kennedy on March 4, 1921. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in 1933 six contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. The last few years since 1929 were overshadowed by the global economic crisis. From 1923 to 1925 William Kopp was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department. Between 1925-1931 he was also a member of the pension committee. Shortly before the end of the legislature in 1933, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, by the beginning of the terms of office of the Congress and the President has been brought forward.

In the 1932 elections Kopp was defeated by Democrat Edward C. Eicher. The election result was in the then federal trend in favor of the Democratic Party, which won by Franklin D. Roosevelt and presidential elections this year. After retiring from Congress William Kopp worked until his death in 1938, again as a lawyer. He was married to Clara Bird ( 1870-1953 ).