John B. Hoge

John Blair Hoge ( born February 2, 1825 Richmond, Virginia; † March 1, 1896 in Martinsburg, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After studying law and its made ​​April, 1845 Admitted to bar John Hoge began to work in Martinsburg in his new profession. In 1853 he became president of the Bank of Berkeley. Politically Hoge joined the Democratic Party. Between 1855 and 1859 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Virginia. In 1860 he was a delegate to two Democratic National Conventions, the Charleston (South Carolina) and Baltimore ( Maryland) took place.

During the Civil War Hoge soldier in the army of the Confederate States. After the war he worked as a journalist and as a lawyer in Martinsburg in the meantime the newly formed state of West Virginia. In 1872 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of West Virginia. From 1872 to 1876 Hoge belonged to the Democratic National Committee. In 1872 he became a judge in the third judicial district of his new home state; this office he held until August 1880.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Hoge was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1881 the successor of Benjamin F. Martin. In Congress, he completed until March 3, 1883 but only one legislative period. Between 1885 and 1889 was Hoge federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia. He died in 1896 in Martinsburg.

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