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George Washington Hopkins | |
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![]() Portrait of Hopkins in 1893 book | |
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Washington County | |
In office 1860–1861 | |
In office 1850–1852 | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 13th district | |
In office March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859 | |
Preceded by | LaFayette McMullen |
Succeeded by | Elbert S. Martin |
In office March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847 | |
Preceded by | William Smith |
Succeeded by | Andrew S. Fulton |
Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs | |
In office 1858–1859 | |
Preceded by | Thomas Lanier Clingman |
Succeeded by | Thomas Corwin |
Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates | |
In office 1850 – 1852 | |
Preceded by | Henry L. Hopkins |
Succeeded by | Oscar M. Crutchfield |
United States Chargé d'Affaires to Portugal | |
In office November 4, 1847 – October 18, 1849 | |
President | James K. Polk |
Preceded by | Abraham Rencher |
Succeeded by | James Brown Clay |
Chairman of the House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads | |
In office 1843 – 1847 | |
Preceded by | George N. Briggs |
Succeeded by | William L. Goggin |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 18th district | |
In office March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1843 | |
Preceded by | John H. Fulton |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Russell County | |
In office 1833 – 1835 | |
Preceded by | Multi-member district |
Succeeded by | William Jessee |
Personal details | |
Born | February 22, 1804 Goochland County, Virginia |
Died | March 1, 1861 Richmond, Virginia | (aged 57)
Resting place | Sinking Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Virginia |
Political party | Democratic (1837-1839, 1841-onward) Conservative (1839-1841) Jacksonian (1835-1837) |
Alma mater | Hampden-Sydney College |
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George Washington Hopkins (February 22, 1804 – March 1, 1861) was a nineteenth-century United States politician, diplomat, lawyer, judge and teacher.
Biography
Born in Goochland County, Virginia near Goochland Court House to the Episcopal minister Charles Hopkins, Hopkins attended the common schools as a child.[1] He later taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, commencing practice in Lebanon, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1833 to 1835 and was elected a Jacksonian Democrat and Conservative to the United States House of Representatives in 1834, serving from 1835 to 1847. There, Hopkins served as chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads from 1843 to 1847.
President James Knox Polk appointed Hopkins as Chargé d'affaires to Portugal in 1847; he served as until 1849. He returned to the House of Delegates as Speaker succeeding his brother Henry L. Hopkins from 1850 to 1852 and was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1850 and 1851. He served as judge of the circuit court of Washington, D.C. and other counties and was elected back to the House of Representatives in 1856, serving again from 1857 to 1859. There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1857 to 1859. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1858 and resumed practicing law in Abingdon, Virginia.
Hopkins served in the House of Delegates for a third time from 1859 until his death in Richmond, Virginia on March 1, 1861. He was interred in Sinking Spring Cemetery in Abingdon.
References
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. IV. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 445. Retrieved December 7, 2020 – via Google Books.
- Jamerson, Bruce F., Clerk of the House of Delegates, supervising (2007). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1776-2007. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia House of Delegates.
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