Henry L. Hopkins
{{short description|American politician}}
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|name = Henry L. Hopkins
|image = Speaker_Henry_Laurens_Hopkins.png
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|caption = Portrait of Hopkins ({{circa|1835}})
|birth_date = {{birth date text|1805}}
|birth_place = Goochland County, Virginia, U.S.
|death_date={{death year and age|1870|1805}}
|death_place= near Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.
|occupation = Lawyer
|alma_mater =
|title= Delegate
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Henry Laurens Hopkins{{cite web |title=House History - Henry Laurens Hopkins |url=https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/2733 |website=history.house.virginia.gov |publisher=Virginia House of Delegates Clerk's Office |access-date=10 March 2022}} (July 12, 1805 – 1870) was a nineteenth century American politician from Virginia.
Early life
Hopkins was born in Goochland County, Virginia, near Goochland Court House, a son of the Episcopal minister Charles Hopkins. He studied law in his home county.Pulliam 1901, p. 106
Career
File:View of Capitol, Richmond, Va. April,1865 - NARA - 529087.jpg at Richmond VA
where 19th century Conventions met]]
As an adult, Hopkins established a law practice in Powhatan County, Virginia, There he served as a Commonwealth’s Attorney for many years.Pulliam 1901, p. 106
Hopkins served as a Delegate in the Virginia Assembly from Powhatan County and was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates 1848-1850. He also served in another Constitutional office as a member of the Council of State and acting Governor for a year.Pulliam 1901, p. 107 He was succeeded by his brother, George Washington Hopkins of Washington County, Virginia.
In 1850, Hopkins was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850. He was one of three delegates elected from the Southside delegate district made up of his home district of Brunswick County, as well as Lunenburg, Nottoway and Dinwiddie Counties.Pulliam 1901, p. 99
Hopkins moved to Petersburg in 1859. During the American Civil War, he served under the Confederate regime as a member of the House of Delegates from 1862 to 1863.Pulliam 1901, p. 107
Death
Henry L. Hopkins died in near Wilmington, North Carolina in 1870.Pulliam 1901, p. 107
References
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Bibliography
- List of former Speakers of the House of Delegates, in the old House chamber in the Virginia State Capitol
- {{cite book |last=Pulliam |first=David Loyd |title=The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time |publisher= John T. West, Richmond |year=1901 |isbn= 978-1-2879-2059-5 |ref=pulliam}}
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Category:Members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Category:People from Goochland County, Virginia
Category:Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates
Category:People from Powhatan County, Virginia
Category:19th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly