Herschel M. Hogg

Herschel M. Hogg

Herschel Millard Hogg (born November 21, 1853 in Youngstown , Ohio , † August 27, 1934 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the second constituency of the state of Colorado in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Herschel Hogg attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1876 Monmouth College in Illinois . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1878, Hogg began working in his new profession in Indianola ( Iowa ). In 1881 he moved to Gunnison , Colorado, where he also practiced as a lawyer. He was also the legal representative of his new hometown between 1882 and 1883. From 1885 to 1893, Hogg was a prosecutor in the Seventh District of Colorado. From 1888 he was based in Telluride . He was an attorney for that city between 1890 and 1898 and was a district attorney in San Miguel County from 1890 to 1902 .

Hogg was a member of the Republican Party . In 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second district of Colorado . There he replaced John Calhoun Bell on March 4, 1903 from the Populist Party , which he had defeated in the elections. After a re-election in 1904, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1907 . In 1906, Hogg decided not to run again. After his tenure in Congress ended, he practiced as a lawyer in Cortez . In 1915 he withdrew completely from politics. In the following years he worked in mining. He had moved to Denver, where he died in 1934.

Web links

• Herschel M. Hogg in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Herschel M. Hogg in the database of Find a Grave (English)