Edward W. Hoch

Infobox Governor
name= Edward W. Hoch


caption=
order=17^th
office= Governor of Kansas
term_start= January 9, 1905
term_end= January 11, 1909
lieutenant= David John Hanna, William James Fitzgerald
predecessor= Willis J. Bailey
successor= Walter R. Stubbs
birth_date= March 17, 1849
birth_place= Danville, Kentucky
death_date= June 1, 1925
death_place= Marion, Kansas
spouse= Sarah Louisa Dickerson
profession= printer, newspaper editor
party= Republican
religion= Methodist
footnotes=

Edward Wallis Hoch (March 17, 1849 - June 1, 1925) was seventeenth Governor of Kansas.

Hoch was born in Danville, Kentucky. He moved to Kansas in 1871, and bought the "Marion County Record" newspaper in 1874.

Hoch served two terms in the Kansas House of Representatives (1889-91 and 1893-95). He was elected governor in 1905 and reelected in 1907. After leaving office, he lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, and continued as publisher of the "Record" until his death in 1925.

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6899441 Find-A-Grave profile for Edward W. Hoch]
* [http://www.kspress.com/img/hof/members/hoch.html Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame biography]