Walter O. Hoffecker

Walter Oakley Hoffecker (born September 20, 1854 in Smyrna , Delaware , † January 23, 1934 in Smyrna) was an American politician . Between 1900 and 1901 he represented the state of Delaware in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Hoffecker was the son of Congressman John H. Hoffecker . He attended the public schools in Smyrna and then until 1872 the Smyrna Seminary . From September 1873 he studied engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem ( Pennsylvania ). After completing his training, Walter Hoffecker worked in agriculture, banking and insurance, among other things. He succeeded his father as President of the Philadelphia & Smyrna Transportation Co. He was later to become President of the Delaware Railroad . He was President of the Fruit Growers Bank in Smyrna for 32 years .

After the death of his father on June 16, 1900, by-elections had to be held in Delaware for the vacant seat in the US House of Representatives. In these elections, Walter Hoffecker was elected as the candidate of the Republican Party with 54% of the vote against the Democrat Edward Fowler to succeed his father in the US Congress . There he ended the legislative period that had begun between November 6, 1900 and March 3, 1901.

In the regular congressional elections in 1900, Walter Hoffecker decided not to run again. Then he returned to his numerous business affairs. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention , where William Howard Taft was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In 1917, Hoffecker became a member of the first Delaware State Highway Committee. He died in January 1934 in his native Smyrna at the age of 79.

Web links

• Walter O. Hoffecker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter O. Hoffecker in the database of Find a Grave (English)