American

Joseph Hopkinson

1770–1842


Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842) was a Philadelphia lawyer, congressman and judge, the son of Francis Hopkinson, and the author of the national song Hail, Columbia (1798).

Griswold included 1 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

  1. Hail Columbia

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