Carl Henry Hoffman (August 12, 1896 – November 30, 1980) was a

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member of the

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from

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Biography

Carl H. Hoffman graduated from

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, in 1922. He served during the

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as a candidate in Officers' Training School for Infantry. He taught school and was a coach of athletics at Juniata College in 1922. He was engaged in the lumber, oil, and banking businesses in

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from 1923 to 1946. Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Buell Snyder and served from May 21, 1946, to January 3, 1947. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress. He resumed his former business pursuits at Somerset where he resided until his death in 1980. Interment in Husband Cemetery.

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