Samuel Hopkins (politician)

Samuel Hopkins

Samuel Hopkins (born April 9, 1753 in Albemarle County , Colony of Virginia , †  September 16, 1819 in Henderson , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Hopkins enjoyed a private school education. He then took part in the War of Independence as an officer in the Continental Army . There he was temporarily on the staff of General George Washington . By the end of the war he had made it to the rank of colonel in the army. In 1796 Hopkins moved to Kentucky, where he settled in a place called Red Banks on the Ohio River . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession. Between 1799 and 1801 he was the presiding judge of the Kentucky First Criminal Court.

Politically, Hopkins joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1801 and 1806 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives on several occasions . From 1809 to 1813 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1812 Hopkins served as Major General in Commander-in-Chief in the western area of ​​the Illinois and Indiana Territories . In the congressional elections of 1812 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created ninth constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1813. Since he refused to run again in 1814, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1815 . This was shaped by the events of the British-American War .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Samuel Hopkins retired to his estate "Spring Garden" near Henderson. He died there on September 16, 1819.

According to him, Hopkins County and the city of Hopkinsville in Christian County , Kentucky named.

Web links

• Samuel Hopkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel Hopkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)