PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  John Prat Hopley (1821-1904) — also known as John Hopley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Whitstable, Kent, England, May 21, 1821. School teacher; superintendent of schools; lawyer; bank examiner; newspaper publisher; postmaster at Bucyrus, Ohio, 1870-79, 1890-94. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, June 3, 1904 (age 83 years, 13 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio.
  Relatives: Married, April 19, 1848, to Georgianna Rochester; father of John Edward Hopley, Thomas Prat Hopley and James Richard Hopley.
  Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Edward Hopley (1850-1927) — also known as John E. Hopley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Elkton, Todd County, Ky., August 25, 1850. Republican. Newspaper editor; lawyer; campaign manager and then private secretary to U.S. Rep. Stephen R. Harris, 1895-97; U.S. Consul in Southampton, 1898-1903; Montevideo, 1903-05; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1914. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; Royal Arch Masons; Royal and Select Masters; Order of the Eastern Star; Knights Templar; Elks. As a bedridden invalid, smoking a pipe, he accidentally dropped the pipe, his clothes caught fire, and he was badly burned; his burns became infected, leading to his death a few days later, in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, July 10, 1927 (age 76 years, 319 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of John Prat Hopley and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley; brother of Thomas Prat Hopley and James Richard Hopley.
  Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.
  Hopley Avenue, in Bucyrus, Ohio, is named for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Prat Hopley (1854-1934) — also known as Thomas P. Hopley — of Enid, Garfield County, Okla. Born in Logan, Hocking County, Ohio, November 13, 1854. Newspaper editor; Independent candidate for U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1922; Independent candidate for U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 1926, 1930, 1932. Died in Enid, Garfield County, Okla., March 14, 1934 (age 79 years, 121 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of John Prat Hopley and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley; brother of John Edward Hopley and James Richard Hopley; married 1897 to Rosa Jeanette Curtis.
  Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Richard Hopley (1863-1954) — also known as James R. Hopley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, August 1, 1863. Republican. Postmaster at Bucyrus, Ohio, 1911; candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1926; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1928. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, August 9, 1954 (age 91 years, 8 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of John Prat Hopley and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley; brother of John Edward Hopley and Thomas Prat Hopley; married to Elizabeth Sheppard and Pearl G. Shafer; married 1938 to Idah May Boyer.
  Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
 
  The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.  
  The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
  Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
  The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/45366.html.  
  Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
  If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.

Creative 
Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter [Amazon.com]