Homer Hoch (July 4, 1879 – January 30, 1949) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in Marion, Kansas, Hoch graduated from

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, Baldwin, Kansas, in 1902. He attended

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, and Washburn Law School,

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, Kansas, from which he graduated in 1909. He served as clerk and chief of the Appointment Division in the

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, Washington, D.C. from 1903 to 1905. He was private secretary to the Governor of Kansas Edward Wallis Hoch in 1907 and 1908. He engaged in the practice of law in Marion from 1909 to 1919 and was editor of the '' Marion County Record'' newspaper. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1928. Hoch was elected as a

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to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. He served as member and chairman of the State Corporation Commission of Kansas 1933-1939. Hoch was elected a member of the

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in 1938. He was reelected in 1944 and served until his death in Topeka, January 30, 1949. He was interred in Highland Cemetery, Marion, Kansas. Hoch's son, Wharton Hoch, was the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record in Marion, Kansas.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoch, Homer 1879 births 1949 deaths People from Marion, Kansas Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas