Charles E. Hogg

Charles Edgar Hogg (* December 21, 1852 in Point Pleasant, Virginia, † June 14, 1935 ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Hogg was born in 1852 on a farm near Point Pleasant, which was still part of Virginia at that time. Since the founding of West Virginia in 1863, this area is a part of that State. Hogg attended Carleton College in Racine ( Ohio) and thereafter until 1869, the Oldham & Haw 's Business College in Pomeroy, also in the state of Ohio. He then worked as a teacher and 1870-1873 as an accountant. After studying law and its made ​​in 1875 Admitted to the Bar Hogg began to practice in his new profession in his native town of Point Pleasant. Between 1875 and 1879 he was also in the Mason County Board of Education.

Politically Hogg was first a member of the Democratic Party. In 1886 he was chosen as their candidate in the fourth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1887, the successor of Eustace Gibson, who had not been nominated by the Democrats. But since Hogg two years later missed the renewed his party's nomination for a second term, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1889.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Hogg again worked as a lawyer. In 1900, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1906 and 1913 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law of West Virginia University in Morgantown. Hogg also wrote several legal treatises. He died on June 14, 1935 in his home town of Point Pleasant. His son Robert (1893-1973) was of 1930-1933 also the fourth constituency of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.