Robert Lynn Hogg

Robert Lynn Hogg (born December 30, 1893 in Point Pleasant , West Virginia , † July 21, 1973 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1930 and 1933 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Hogg was the son of Charles E. Hogg , who had also represented the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives between 1887 and 1889. The younger Hogg attended the public schools in his home country and then studied law at West Virginia University in Morgantown until 1916, among other things. After his admission to the bar in 1916, he began to work in Point Pleasant in his new profession. During the First World War , he served first in a unit of the coastal artillery and then in the Air Corps of the US Army .

After the war, Robert Hogg worked again as a lawyer in Point Pleasant. Between 1921 and 1924 he was a district attorney in Mason County . Politically, he joined the Republican Party . From 1925 to 1929 he was a member of the West Virginia Senate . After the death of Congressman James A. Hughes , Hogg won the necessary by-election in the fourth district of his state. After he was confirmed in the regular congressional election of 1930, he could remain in Congress between November 4, 1930 and March 3, 1933 . There he took the same seat his father had previously. His time in Congress was overshadowed by the events of the Great Depression. Shortly before the end of the legislative period, the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed, which redefined the beginning and the end of the legislative periods or the terms of office of the Congress and the President.

In the 1932 elections, which were nationwide in favor of the Democratic Party , Hogg lost to George William Johnson . After leaving Congress, he returned to work as a lawyer. Between 1935 and 1944 he was the legal representative of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents in New York City . Between 1944 and 1954 he was Vice President of the American Life Convention in Chicago . In the following years he held several similar positions in this field. Between 1960 and 1970, Robert Hogg was an advisor to a law firm in Charleston . At that time he lived in Lewisburg . Robert Hogg died in Charlottesville on July 21, 1973 and was buried in Point Pleasant, his birthplace.

Web links

• Robert Lynn Hogg in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Lynn Hogg in the database of Find a Grave (English)