Benjamin F. Hopkins

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"(April 22, 1829 -- January 1, 1870) Benjamin Franklin Hopkins was a(n) telegraph operator, secretary, public servant and American politician. He was born in Hebron, New York and moved to Wisconsin in 1849. Hopkins was a private secretary to Governor Bashfourd (1856 and 1857), served in the state senate (1862 and 1863), and member of the state assembly (1866). He was elected as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congress (March 4, 1867 - his death January 1, 1870) [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000771]"

Member of Wisconsin Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment, Wisconsin Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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