Walter Lee Hopkins

Background

Hopkins, Walter Lee was born on December 26, 1889 in Rocky Mount, Virginia, United States. Son of William Leftwich Turner and Mary Ella (Hancock) Hopkins.

Education

Student William and Mary College, 1908-1911.

Career

Admitted to Virginia bar, 1914. Editor and manager Franklin Chronicle, 1916-1917. With Hairston, Woodrum and Hopkins, 1914-1916.

Member Hopkins and Hopkins, Richmond, since 1920.

In United States Army, 1917. Commissioned Lieutenant infantry and assigned to 318th Regiment, 80th Division.

In charge Cable Section Bureau, War Department, from November 17, 1918, until honorary discharge, March 10, 1919. Assistant chief attorney Board of Contract Adjustment, War Department, 1919 (associate member 1919-1920).

Appointed member of staff of Governor John Garland Pollard of Virginia, 1930, by Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky, 1933 (aide-de-camp with rank of colonel), Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, June 5, 1934 (aide-de-camp with rank of lieutenant colonel), Governor William

H. Murray, of Oklahoma, May 28, 1934 (aide-de-camp with rank of colonel). Commissioned by Governor J. M. Futrell, of Arkansas, in Arkansas Reserve Militia, with rank of colonel, May 25, 1934, and assigned as aide-de-camp on his staff Re-appointed by Governor Talmadge as member of staff (aide-de-camp with rank of lieutenant colonel), to rank from January 16, 1935.

Appointed to staff of Governor James V. Allred of Texas, May 17, 1935 (aide-de-camp with rank of lieutenant colonel).

Commissioned honorary colonel in the National Guard of the United States and State of Mississippi, August 23, 1935, by Governor Sennett Conner. Appointed member of staff of Governor Olin Doctorate. Johnston, of South Carolina.

(aide-de-camp with rank of lieutenant colonel), 1938. Reappointed member of staff of Governor Johnston, February 1, 1943.

Appointment member of staff of Governor James H. Davis of Louisiana (aide-de-camp with rank of colonel), October 28, 1944.

Assistant adjutant general U.C.V., 1927, 28, with rank of brigadier general. Appointed judge advisory general on staff of commander in chief, U.C.V., 1935 (with rank of brigadier general).

Achievements

• Walter Lee Hopkins has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Virginia House of Delegates, since 1940. Member or former; member state Executive Committee, 1920-1922), Sons of Confederate Veterans (camp commander 1921-1922. Member of national executive council, 1923-1924 and 1933-1935.

Member American Academy Political and Social Science, American Geography Society, Repeal Associates, Virginia Commision on Inter-racial Company-operation, National Committee for Protection of Child, Family, School and Church (member Executive Committee), Virginia History Society, Phi Alpha Delta, Kappa Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa.

Member of the board visitors R. East. Lee Camp, Soldiers’ Home (president), Eightieth Division Veterans Association, Board Pension Commissioners of Richmond City (chairman), Manassas Battlefield Foundation Committee, Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Memorial Home Committee, Appomattox History Park Association (Vice-President. Member board directors).

Member board of trustees, Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial (member executive committee). Member State Central Democratic Committee and vice chairman third Congressional District Committee.

Mason (32°, Shriner), Odd.

Clubs: Westmoreland, Commonwealth.

Connections

Father:

William Leftwich Turner Hopkins

Mother:

Mary Ella (Hancock) Hopkins