Joseph Hopkinson (November 12, 1770 – January 15, 1842) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Joseph Hopkinson
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Born 1770 in Philadelphia, PA
Died 1842 in Philadelphia, PA
FJC ID: 1094
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1819–1820, 1823–1828
- Private practice, Bordentown, New Jersey1820–1823
- New JerseyState assemblyman · 1821–1822
- U.S. representative from Pennsylvania1815–1819
- Private practice, Philadelphia and Easton, Pennsylvania1791–1814
Appointments
1829–1842 · Appointed by John Quincy Adams (Jeffersonian Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1791
- University of PennsylvaniaA.B. · 1786