Herschel M. Hogg

Herschel Millard Hogg ( born November 21, 1853 in Youngstown, Ohio; † August 27, 1934 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herschel Hogg attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1876, the Monmouth College in Illinois. After a subsequent study of law and its 1878 lawyer was admitted to Hogg began in Indianola (Iowa) to work in his new profession. In 1881 he moved to Gunnison, Colorado, where he also practiced law. He was also a 1882-1883 legal representative of his new hometown. From 1885 to 1893 Hogg was a prosecutor in the Seventh Judicial District of Colorado. Since 1888 he has been resident in Telluride. Between 1890 and 1898 he was a lawyer of this city, and from 1890 to 1902 he was district attorney in San Miguel County.

Hogg was a member of the Republican Party. In 1902 he was selected in the second district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he broke on March 4, 1903 John Calhoun Bell of the Populist Party, whom he had beaten in the elections, from. After a re-election in 1904, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907 two legislative sessions. 1906 Hogg waived on a bid again. After the end of his time in Congress, he practiced law in Cortez. In 1915, he withdrew completely from politics. In the following years he worked in the mining industry. He had moved to Denver, where he died in 1934 his residence.