Carl Henry Hoffman

Who was Carl Henry Hoffman?

Carl Henry Hoffman was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Carl H. Hoffman graduated from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1922. He served during the First World War as a candidate in Officers’ Training School for Infantry. He taught school and was a coach of athletics at Juniata College in 1922. He was engaged in the lumber, oil, and banking businesses in Somerset, Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1946.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Buell Snyder and served from May 21, 1946, to January 3, 1947. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress. He resumed his former business pursuits at Somerset where he resided until his death in 1980. Interment in Husband Cemetery.