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.