"1829Z"^^ . . "1870Z"^^ . . "1870-01-01Z"^^ . "1829-04-22Z"^^ . "1870-01-01Z"^^ . . "Benjamin Franklin Hopkins (April 22, 1829 \u2013 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."@en . . . "1867-03-04Z"^^ . "Benjamin F. Hopkins"@en . "Hopkins, Benjamin F."@en . "American politician" . .