William F. Kopp
William Kopp | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 1st district | |
In office March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933 | |
Preceded by | Charles A. Kennedy |
Succeeded by | Edward C. Eicher |
Personal details | |
Born | Dodgeville, Iowa, U.S. | June 20, 1869
Died | August 24, 1938 Mount Pleasant, Iowa, U.S | (aged 69)
Political party | Republican |
Education | Iowa Wesleyan University University of Iowa |
William Frederick Kopp (June 20, 1869 – August 24, 1938) was a six-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district.
Born near
Kopp was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1914, and served a single two-year term that ended in early 1917.
In 1920, Kopp was elected as a Republican to the first of six consecutive terms in the U.S. House, representing Iowa's 1st congressional district in the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (in the Sixty-eighth Congress), Committee on Labor (in the Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses), and the Committee on Pensions (in the Seventy-first Congress).
In 1932, Kopp, like many other Republican candidates for Congress, was defeated in the Roosevelt landslide. Kopp was defeated by Washington, Iowa, attorney Edward C. Eicher. In all, Kopp served in the House from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1933.
Kopp returned to practice law at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, until his death there on August 24, 1938. He was interred in Forest Home Cemetery.
References
- United States Congress. "William F. Kopp (id: K000314)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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