Archibald E. Olpp

Archibald E. Olpp

Archibald Ernest Olpp (born May 12, 1882 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , †  July 26, 1949 in Cliffside Park , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Archibald Olpp attended the public schools of his home country as well as the Moravian School and Lehigh University , where he himself taught chemistry in 1903 and 1904. Between 1908 and 1909 he taught biological chemistry at Columbia University in New York City . In the meantime he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia until 1908 . In 1909 he began practicing his new profession in West Hoboken . There he was the municipal medical officer from 1912 to 1914. From 1916 to 1924 he worked in Secaucus as a police and school doctor. During the First World War , Olpp was in the medical service of the armed forces.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1920 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded John J. Eagan on March 4, 1921 . Since he lost to Eagan in 1922, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1923 . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Archibald Olpp worked as a doctor again. He died on July 26, 1949 in Cliffside Park and was buried in Englewood .

Web links

• Archibald E. Olpp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Archibald E. Olpp in the database of Find a Grave (English)