Horatio Clarence Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken ( born October 12, 1857 in Toronto, Ontario, † February 18, 1937 ) was a Canadian politician and 36th mayor of Toronto.

Horatio Hocken began his career as a printer, publisher and journalist. After working as a typesetter in Toronto Globe, he was a foreman in the printing of the Toronto News. In both papers, he led strikes and founded with 20 other strikers newspaper Evening Star, as the Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper today. Then he left the star and was city editor at News. In 1905 he bought to the weekly newspaper, The Orange Sentinel, the organ of the Orange Order.

Squatting political career began in 1907 with the election to the Audit Committee of the City Council, where he served until 1911. From January 1912 to January 1915 he was mayor of Toronto. During his tenure he supported the construction of numerous parks in the city. He built public baths; under his aegis, a sewage treatment plant was built and expanded the municipal sewer system. Hocken prompted that all children were found in the slums free milk available. His reforms, it is thanks to them that the death rate dropped to 27 because of illnesses of 114 deaths per 100,000 population. He also supported social housing.

After his tenure as mayor, he was first elected to Parliament as a candidate of the Unionist Party in the general election of 1917. Already at the next General Election in 1921 he was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. This was followed by re- elections in 1925 and 1926. He served continuously from the 13th to the 16th Canadian Parliament as a member and remained until 1930 in the federal policy. On December 30, 1933, he was nominated for the Canadian Senate and remained until his death in 1937 member of the Senate.