William Hoge

For the U.S. Army general, see William M. Hoge

William Hoge (1762 – September 25, 1814) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Hoge was born near Hogestown, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling and moved to western Pennsylvania in 1782, where he and his brother John founded the town of Washington, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1796 and 1797.

Hoge was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventh and Eighth United States Congresses and served until his resignation on October 15, 1804. He was again elected to the Tenth Congress. He retired to his farm near Washington, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1814. Interment in the “Old Graveyard.”

Sources

• William Hoge at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress