Richard William Hoffman (December 23, 1893 – July 6, 1975) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Illinois
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.
Born in
Chicago, Illinois
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, Hoffman was a veteran of the First World War. He engaged in the printing and publishing business. He owned and operated radio stations in
Chicago, Illinois
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. He served as president of the board of education of J. Sterling Morton High School and Junior College 1933-1936 and 1939–1948.
Hoffman was elected as a
Republican
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to the
Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1957). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the
Eighty-fifth Congress.
He resumed former business activities. He resided in
Riverside, Illinois
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. He died in
Maywood, Illinois
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, July 6, 1975. He was interred in
Forest Home Cemetery
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,
Forest Park, Illinois
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.
References
1893 births
Military personnel from Illinois
1975 deaths
Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago
American military personnel of World War I
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
20th-century American politicians
People from Riverside, Illinois
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