Archibald E. Olpp
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Archibald Ernest Olpp (May 12, 1882 – July 26, 1949) was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey. Born in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Olpp attended the public schools. He was graduated from the Moravian School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1899, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1903, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1908.
Olpp was an instructor in chemistry at Lehigh University in 1903 and 1904 and in biological chemistry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1908 and 1909.
Olpp began the practice of medicine in West Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1909. He served as town physician (1912-1914) and police surgeon and physician to public schools in Secaucus, New Jersey (1916 to 1924).
He served as first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps during the First World War.
Olpp was elected as a Republican for a single term to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921–March 3, 1923). Following an unsuccessful reelection bid in 1922, Olpp resumed his medical career.
Olpp died in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, July 26, 1949. He was interred in Brookside Cemetery, Englewood, New Jersey.[1]
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- Archibald Ernest Olpp at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Archibald Ernest Olpp at The Political Graveyard
- Archibald Ernest Olpp at Find A Grave
| Preceded by John J. Eagan |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 11th congressional district March 4, 1921–March 3, 1923 |
Succeeded by John J. Eagan |
