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Suffolk. 1885-1887; commonwealth attorney for Nansemond county, 1887-1907; state senator, 1907-1911 ; was elected to the sixty- second, sixty-third and sixty-fourth con- gresses. He is still a member (1915).

Hooper, Benjamin Stephen, born in IJuck- ii gham county, Virginia, Alarch 6, 1835; at- tended the common schools, engaged in mercantile business and the manufacture of tobacco. He was elected as readjuster to the forty-eighth congress (March 4, 1883- March 3, 1885). He died at Farmville, Vir- ginia, January 17, 1898.

Hopkins, Samuel Isaac, born in Prince George county, ^Maryland, December 12, 1843; moved in infancy to Anne Arundel county, where he attended the common schools ; while a minor enlisted in Company A, Second Maryland Confederate Infantry, and served during the war ; wounded several times; after the war he located in Lynch- burg; elected as a Knight of Labor to the fiftieth congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889) ; a resident of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Hunton, Eppa, (q. v.).

Johnston, Joseph E., (q. v.).

Jones, William Atkinson, born at Warsaw. Virginia, March 21, 1849, son of Thomas Jones, of Richmond county, and Anna Sey- mour Trowbridge, his wife, she a descend- ant of Gen. Joseph Jones, of Dinwiddle county (q. v.). He entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1864, and served with its corps of cadets in defense of Richmoncl, until its evacuation after the war; he at- tended Coleman's School in Fredericksburg, and graduated from the law department of the Lniversily of Virginia in 1870; admitted

to the bar in July, 1870, and commenced practice in Warsaw, Virginia ; common- wealth attorney for several years ; delegate in the Democratic National Conventions of 1880, 1896 and 1900; elected as a Democrat to the fifty-second and to the nine succeed- ing congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 191 1) ; re-elected to the sixty-second, sixty- third and sixty-fourth congresses, and is still serving. In 1880 he was a delegate-at- large to the Democratic National Conven- tion which ncjminated Gen. Hancock for the presidency, and chairman of the Virginia delegation in that body. He was also a dcle- gate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention of igoo, in Kansas City.

Jorgensen, Joseph, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 11, 1844; was grad- uated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania; cadet surgeon United States army, March 17, 1864-March 23, 1865; acting assistant surgeon, April 10, 1865-September ID, 1865, and June 5, 1S67- February 21, 1870; elected to the house of representatives of Virginia, 1871 ; appointed postmaster of Petersburg; elected as a Re- publican to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses (March 4, 1877- March 3, 1883) ; appointed register of the land office at Walla Walla, Washington, by President Arthur, February 27, 1883; and served until removed by President Cleve- land in 1886; delegate in the Republican National Convention of 1880: died at Port- land, Oregon, January 21, 1888.

Lamb, John, born in Sussex county, Vir- ginia, June 12. 1840, son of Lycurgus A. Lamb and Ann E. Christian, his wife, she a lineal descendant of Col. Joseph Christian, of the revolutionary army. When he was