Homer Hoch

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

Career

Homer High attended the common schools and then studied until 1902 at the Baker University in Baldwin City. This was followed up in 1909 to study law at George Washington University and the Washburn Law School. Between 1903 and 1905 worked high for the post of State in Washington; 1907 to 1908 he was private secretary to Governor Edward W. High. After high worked from 1909 to 1919 as a lawyer and published the newspaper " Marion Record".

Politically, high member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1918 he was in the fourth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Dudley Doolittle of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1919. After he won the following six congressional elections, he was able to complete in 1933 seven legislative sessions in Congress until March 3. In 1928 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert C. Hoover as a presidential candidate of the party. In the 1932 elections, he was defeated by Democrat Randolph Carpenter. So high was a victim of the general political turnaround this year in favor of the Democrats, which culminated with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as U.S. president.

Between 1933 and 1939 Homer High was a member and Chairman of the State Corporation Commission. From 1938 until his death he was a member of the Supreme Court of Kansas.