Daniel K. Hoch | |
Caption: | Hoch, pictured in a portrait for the 79th United States Congress |
State1: | Pennsylvania |
Constituency1: | (1943–1945) (1945–1947) |
Term Start1: | January 3, 1943 |
Term End1: | January 3, 1947 |
Preceded1: | Guy L. Moser |
Succeeded1: | Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg |
Office3: | Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
Term3: | 1899–1901 |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1866 |
Birth Place: | Reading, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | Reading, Pennsylvania |
Party: | Democratic |
Daniel Knabb Hoch (January 31, 1866 – October 11, 1960) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Daniel Hoch was born on a farm near Reading, Pennsylvania. He served a printing apprenticeship on a Reading newspaper and worked in various departments of the newspaper. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1899 to 1901, and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908. He was controller of Berks County, PA from 1912 to 1916, and a trustee of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church since 1937. He was elected as a Democrat to the 78th and 79th Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946.