John H. Hoeppel

John Henry Hoeppel (born February 10, 1881 in Tell City , Perry County , Indiana , †  September 21, 1976 in Arcadia , California ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Höppel attended the Grammar School in Evansville . He then served in the US Army between 1898 and 1921 , where he made it to sergeant-major. During the First World War he was used in France . After his military service, Hoeppel lived in Arcadia, where he was a post office keeper between 1923 and 1931 . Since 1928 he published the "National Defense Magazine". At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1932 congressional elections , Hoeppel was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established 12th constituency of California , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1937 . From 1935 he was chairman of the Committee on War Claims . During his time in Congress, many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1936 Hoeppel was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked again as a publisher. In 1946 he applied unsuccessfully as a Prohibition Party candidate to return to Congress. He died in Arcadia on September 21, 1976.

Web links

• John H. Hoeppel in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John H. Höppel in the database of Find a Grave (English)