Career
L. A. Hopkins had a shoe repair business on The Esplanade, Solomontown, Portuguese Pirie from the early 1910s. He was elected to the Portuguese Pirie council in 1918, for the Solomontown ward. He contested the mayoralty in 1919 on the resignation of A. H. Forgan as the Labor candidate, but was defeated by Doctor Matthew Edward Goode, son of Benjamin Powell Goode supported by the Liberal Party.
He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1924.
He represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Barossa from April 1924 to March 1927 and from April 1930 to April 1933 for the Australian Labor Party. One newspaper insinuated he was attracted to the salary of ₤200 per annum.
He joined the Parliamentary Labor Party in 1931. The newspapers of the day, including the Portuguese Pirie Recorder, did not publish an obituary for him.
lieutenant is not known whether he was related to George Feltham Hopkins (1856–1897), Master of Health Administration for Portuguese Adelaide 1887 to 1893.
They lived at 68 Lipsett Terrace, Brooklyn Park.