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Homer Hoch (born July 4, 1879 in Marion , Marion County , Kansas , † January 30, 1949 in Topeka , Kansas) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Homer Hoch attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at Baker University in Baldwin City until 1902 . This was followed by a law degree at George Washington University and Washburn Law School until 1909 . Between 1903 and 1905, Hoch worked for the Department of Post in Washington; from 1907 to 1908 he was private secretary to Governor Edward W. Hoch . Then high worked from 1909 to 1919 as a lawyer and published the newspaper "Marion Record".

Politically, Hoch was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1918 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of Kansas , where he succeeded Dudley Doolittle of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1919 . After he also won the six following congressional elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . In June 1928 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City , where Herbert Hoover was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In the 1932 elections he was defeated by the Democrat Randolph Carpenter . This made Hoch a victim of the general political turnaround in favor of the Democrats that year, which culminated in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as US President.

Between 1933 and 1939, Homer Hoch was a member and chairman of the State Corporation Commission . From 1938 until his death he was a judge on the Kansas Supreme Court .

Web links

• Homer Hoch in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Homer high in the database of Find a Grave (English)