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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriDavid William HOPKINS
(1897-1968)
HOPKINS, David William, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Troy, Doniphan County, Kans.,
on October 31, 1897; moved in 1899 to Missouri with his parents,
who settled in St. Joseph; attended the public schools and was
graduated from Graceland Academy, Lamoni, Iowa, in 1916; during the
First World War served as a sergeant in Company F, Student Training
Corps, from October 1918 until honorably discharged in December
1918; was graduated from Iowa State University at Iowa City in 1920
and from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1926; taught in
the high schools of St. Joseph from 1922 until elected to Congress;
served as superintendent of schools of St. Joseph in 1928 and 1929;
elected as a Republican to both the Seventieth and Seventy-first
Congresses to fill the vacancies caused by the death of Charles L.
Faust, who had been reelected in 1928; reelected to the
Seventy-second Congress and served from February 5, 1929, to March
3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress; engaged in the insurance business; member
of St. Joseph Board of Education, 1937-1967; died in St. Joseph,
Mo., October 14, 1968; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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