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Albert Cole Hopkins

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Preceded by
  
Henry Clay McCormick

Name
  
Albert Hopkins

Role
  
U.S. representative


Political party
  
Republican

Education
  
Alfred University

Alma mater
  
Alfred University

Party
  
Republican Party

Born
  
September 15, 1837 Villanovia, New York (
1837-09-15
)

Died
  
June 9, 1911, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States

Succeeded by
  
Fred Churchill Leonard

Albert Cole Hopkins (September 15, 1837 – June 9, 1911) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Albert C. Hopkins was born in Villanovia, New York (near Jamestown, New York). He graduated from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. He taught school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Troy, Pennsylvania. In 1867 he moved to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the lumber business.

Hopkins was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894. He resumed his lumber manufacturing pursuits, and served as State forestry commissioner from 1899 to 1904. He was a delegate to the 1900 and 1904 Republican National Conventions. He died in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1911. Interment in Highland Cemetery.

References

Albert Cole Hopkins Wikipedia