Joseph P. Hoge

Joseph Pendleton Hoge (* December 15, 1810 in Steubenville, Ohio; † August 14, 1891 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1847 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Hoge attended the common schools and the Jefferson College. After a subsequent law degree in 1836 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Galena in this profession. In his new home he has also held several local offices. Politically Hoge was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1842 he was in the then newly created constituency of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1843. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1847 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American war since 1845.

In 1846, Hoge gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Galena. In 1853 he moved to California, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1869 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate; In 1878 he led a meeting on the revision of the California State Constitution. Since 1889 he was a judge at the Superior Court of Sonoma County. He died on August 14, 1891 in San Francisco.