Elmer J. Hoffman

Elmer Joseph Hoffman was an American businessman, law enforcement officer, politician, and World War I veteran who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1965.

Biography

Born on a farm in DuPage County, near Wheaton, Illinois, Hoffman attended the public schools of Wheaton. He enlisted in the Artillery Corps during the World War I and served in France. After the war, he helped operate his father's farm as well as his own trucking firm from 1919 to 1930.

He was employed in Du Page County sheriff's office from 1930 to 1938. He was sheriff of Du Page County from 1939 to 1942. He served as chief deputy sheriff from 1943 to 1946, and then became sheriff again, from 1947 to 1950. In 1951 he was a probation officer of Du Page County's circuit and county courts.

Hoffman was elected State treasurer in 1952, reelected in 1956 and served until elected to Congress.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses. Hoffman voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1960 and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress.

Hoffman resided in Wheaton, Illinois, where he died June 25, 1976. He was interred in St. Michael's Cemetery.