William F. Kopp

William F. Kopp

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 Dodgeville, Iowa, Kopp attended the common schools. He was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College at Mount Pleasant in 1892 and from the University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa City in 1894. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Mount Pleasant. He served as prosecuting attorney of Henry County, Iowa, from 1895 to 1899. He later served as Postmaster of Mount Pleasant from 1906 to 1914, and as a member of the board of trustees of Iowa Wesleyan College from 1908 to 1938.

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

William F. Kopp at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Charles A. Kennedy	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 1st congressional district 1921–1933	Succeeded by Edward C. Eicher

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa

1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum

2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack

3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young

4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle Le Compte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King

5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thruston Le Compte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King

6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy

7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle

8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven

9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey

10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist

11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell

AL	Hastings and Leffler

Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 24403272 LCCN: no2008033103 US Congress: K000314

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