{"id":2915,"date":"2020-10-28T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T22:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=2915"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:16:18","slug":"d-h-hopson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/d-h-hopson\/","title":{"rendered":"David H. Hopson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>David H. Hopson (Coahoma County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House: <\/strong>1888<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:\u00a0<\/strong>1859 in Coahoma County, MS<\/p>\n<p>Listed as a student at Alcorn University in 1874. Teacher. Listed on the 1880 census in Coahoma County with parents Charles and Melvinia. According to Mississippi department reports, he held various county offices, including tax assessor (1884) and coroner (1896).<\/p>\n<p>By 1900, he was a laborer on the farm of a William Tompkins. He was working as a &#8220;newsboy&#8221; in 1910, living at 526 Edwards Ave. in Clarksdale with wife Mattie and a few boarders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2916\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/d-h-hopson\/capture-33\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2916 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-25-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-25-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-25-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Ledger, December 17, 1887<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David H. Hopson (Coahoma County) State House: 1888 Born:\u00a01859 in Coahoma County, MS Listed as a student at Alcorn University in 1874. Teacher. Listed on the 1880 census in Coahoma County with parents Charles and Melvinia. According to Mississippi department reports, he held various county offices, including tax assessor (1884) and coroner (1896). By 1900, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/d-h-hopson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David H. Hopson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915\/revisions\/5483"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}