Stephen T. Hopkins

Stephen Tyng Hopkins (born March 25, 1849 in New York City , † March 3, 1892 in Pleasantville , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1889 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Hopkins was born in New York City about a year after the end of the Mexican-American War . He attended the Anthon Grammar School there . Afterwards he worked as an iron dealer and broker . He moved to Catskill . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1885 and 1886 . He was associated with several coal and iron syndicates in West Virginia and Tennessee . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the elections of 1886 for the 50th Congress , Hopkins was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th  electoral district of New York , where he succeeded James Girard Lindsley on March 4, 1887 . He retired from the after March 3, 1889 Congress of.

Hopkins worked as a security guard at the Customs House in New York City from April 9 until his resignation on August 15, 1890. He was found dead by train crews on March 3, 1892, along the railroad tracks at Pleasantville, adjacent to Atlantic City . His body was buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• Stephen T. Hopkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stephen T. Hopkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)