| Notes |
ROBERT LYNN HOGG 1893-1973 - Born in Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, the son of Charles Edgar Hogg. He attended the public schools and West Virginia Preparatory School and graduated from West Virginia University in Morgantown, 1914 and from the law department in 1816. Mr. Hogg started praticing law in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. During World War I he served from 1917-1919 in the Coast Artillery Corps and the Air Service. After serving during the war, he returned to pratice law in Point Pleasant, he was also Mason County's Prosecuting Attorney 1921-1924. A member of the State senate 1925-1929, he was elected as a Republican in a special election November 4, 1930 to the Seventy-first Congress then reelected to the Seventy-second Congress where he served from November 4, 1930 untio March 3, 1993. Unsuccessful for reelection in 1932, he resumed his law pratice in Point Pleasant and served as a lawyer for the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, New York, New York, 1935-1944. He was executive and vice president of American Life Convention, Chicago, Illinois 1844-1954 and then senior vice president, advisory counsel and vice chairman of the board fo Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States from 1954 until he retired in 1960, he did continue to serve as a member of the board and on the executive committee. Mr. Hogg served as counsel to a law firm in Charleston, West Virginia from 1960 until 1970, and resided in Lewisburg, West Virginia. He died July 21, 1973 in Charlottesville, Virginia and is buried in Lone Oak Cemetery, Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
|
West Virginia Pioneers
1893 - 1973 (~ 79 years)
[1] 
