Benjamin Franklin Hopkins (April 22 1829 – January 1 1870) was a nineteenth-century politician secretary and telegraph operator from Wisconsin.Born in Hebron New York Hopkins attended the common schools as a child and later became a telegraph operator. He moved to Madison Wisconsin in 1849 and served as a private secretary to Governor Coles Bashford in 1856 and 1857. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate in 1862 and 1863 and served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1866.
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