Joe Hoppe (politician)
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Joseph R. "Joe" Hoppe (born December 13, 1964) is a Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Minnesota House of Representatives
The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B...
representing District 34B, which includes portions of Carver
Carver County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 70,205 people, 24,356 households, and 18,778 families residing in the county. The population density was 197 people per square mile . There were 24,883 housing units at an average density of 70 per square mile...
and Hennepin
Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hennepin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota, named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. As of 2010 the population was 1,152,425. Its county seat is Minneapolis. It is by far the most populous county in Minnesota; more than one in five Minnesotans live...
counties in the southwestern part of the Twin Cities
Twin cities
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metropolitan area. A Republican
Republican Party of Minnesota
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, he is also a local businessman and works in communications.
Hoppe was first elected in 2002, and was re-elected in 2004, 2006 and 2008. He ran unopposed in 2010. He is currently a member of the House's Commerce and Labor Committee, the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee. He also serves on the Commerce and Labor Subcommittee for the Telecommunications Regulation and Infrastructure Division, on which he is the ranking minority party member, and on the Finance Subcommittee for the Energy Finance and Policy Division.
Hoppe graduated from Watertown High School in Watertown
Watertown, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,029 people, 1,078 households, and 775 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,808.0 people per square mile . There were 1,100 housing units at an average density of 656.6 per square mile...
, then went on to Saint John's University in Collegeville, earning a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
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in History.