Homer Hoch
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromKansas's4th district
In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933
Preceded by	Dudley Doolittle
Succeeded by	Randolph Carpenter
Personal details
Born	(1879-07-04)July 4, 1879 Marion, Kansas
Died	January 30, 1949(1949-01-30) (aged 69) Topeka, Kansas
Political party	Republican

Homer Hoch (July 4, 1879 – January 30, 1949) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor,United States Congressman fromKansas, and judge who served seven terms in theUnited States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1933.

Born inMarion, Kansas, Hoch graduated fromBaker University,Baldwin, Kansas, in 1902. He attendedGeorge Washington Law School,Washington, D.C., andWashburn Law School,Topeka, Kansas, from which he graduated in 1909.

He served as clerk and chief of the Appointment Division in theUnited States Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. from 1903 to 1905. He was private secretary to theGovernor of KansasEdward Wallis Hoch in 1907 and 1908. He engaged in the practice of law in Marion from 1909 to 1919 and was editor of theMarion County Record newspaper. He served as delegate to theRepublican National Convention in 1928.

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

Hoch was elected a member of theKansas Supreme Court 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 theMarion County Record in Marion, Kansas.^[1]

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