HOEPPEL, John Henry, (1881 - 1976)  HOEPPEL, John Henry, a
Representative from California; born near Tell City, Perry
County, Ind., February 10, 1881; attended the grammar school in
Evansville, Ind.; enlisted in the United States Army on July 27,
1898, and served successively as private, corporal, and sergeant
until 1921, with service in France during the First World War;
moved to Arcadia, Los Angeles County, Calif., in 1919;
postmaster at Arcadia, Calif., 1923-1931; in 1928 became editor
of National Defense magazine; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-third and to the Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4,
1933-January 3, 1937); chairman, Committee on War Claims
(Seventy-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed his
editorial interests; unsuccessful Prohibition candidate for
election in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; resided in Arcadia,
Calif., where he died September 21, 1976; interment in
Resurrection Cemetery, San Gabriel, Calif.