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Hopkinson, Joseph

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Hopkinson, Joseph (1770–1842)

US lawyer, politician, and writer. He wrote the patriotic song ‘Hail, Columbia’. He was a Federalist member of the House of Representatives 1815–19, and judge of the District Court of the USA 1828.

He was born in Philadelphia, the son of the politician Francis Hopkinson, and educated at the university there. He studied law and practised in Easton and Philadelphia. He was also vice-president of the American Philosophical Society and president of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.



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