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Philip Knopf (born November 18, 1847 in Long Grove , Lake County , Illinois , †  August 14, 1920 in Chicago , Illinois) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1909 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Philip Knopf attended the public schools in his home country. During the Civil War he served in an Illinois infantry unit in the Union Army . In 1866 he moved to Chicago. He studied at Bryan and Stratton's College for a year . He worked in the craft until 1884. He then served as Chief Deputy Coroner for eight years . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . From 1884 to 1896, Knopf was a member of the Illinois Senate ; from 1894 to 1902 he worked in the administration of Cook County . In June 1896 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis , at which William McKinley was nominated as a candidate for president. He was also a member of the state board of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1902 , Knopf was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded George Edmund Foss on March 4, 1903 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1909 . From 1905 he was chairman of the Ministry of Finance's Expenditure Control Committee.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Philip Knopf was no longer politically active. He died on August 14, 1920 in Chicago, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Philip Knopf in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Philip button in the database of Find a Grave (English)