John Marquis Hopkins (1870 – 3 July 1912) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House, Perth, Parliament House in the Western Australian capi ...

, representing Boulder from 1901 to 1905 and

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from 1908 to 1910. He had been mayor of Boulder from 1898 to 1901. In 1910 he was jailed for five years for

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, but was released in October 1911.John Marquis Hopkins
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, John Marquis Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Australian politicians convicted of crimes 1870 births 1912 deaths People from Victoria (Australia) Mayors of places in Western Australia