Francis Hoffmann

Francis Arnold Hoffmann (June 5, 1822 – January 23, 1903) was a German-American Lutheran clergyman, politician, banker and writer.

During this time he became active in public affairs and served as postmaster, town clerk and member of the school board.

[1] Hoffmann was a vigorous opponent of the extension of slavery, an issue brought into prominence by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

He left the Democratic Party and played a role in the election of Lyman Trumbull to the United States Senate.

After the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 he chaired a committee of city bankers whose efforts successfully avoided a banking panic.