Biography

08/16/1781 - 12/03/1834


HOPKINS, Joseph Richardson, a Representative Philadelphia City; born, August 16, 1781 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa; lawyer; elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1822-1823 term; secretary, Federal Republican Committee, Philadelphia (1824-1825); died, December 3, 1834 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Friends Arch Street House Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 


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