Archibald Ernest Olpp (May 12, 1882 – July 26, 1949) was an American physician and politician who served a single term in the

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from

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. He was the first Republican to be elected to Congress from the

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since it was created in 1913.

Biography

Born in

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, Olpp attended the public schools. He graduated from the Moravian School,

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, in 1899,

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, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1903, and from the medical department of the

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at Philadelphia in 1908. Olpp was an instructor in chemistry at

in 1903 and 1904 and in biological chemistry at the

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, New York City, in 1908 and 1909. Olpp began the practice of medicine in

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, in 1909. He served as town physician (1912–1914) and police surgeon and physician to public schools in

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(1916 to 1924). He served as first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps during

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era. 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. A resident of

Cliffside Park, New Jersey Cliffside Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 25,693, an increase of 2,099 (+8.9%) from the 2010 census count of 23,594, which in turn reflecte ...

, Olpp died at the age of 67 at Hackensack Hospital on July 26, 1949, after having collapsed in front of a building in Hasbrouck Heights. He was interred in Brookside Cemetery,

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''. Accessed August 22, 2007.

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