Samuel H. Hoge

Samuel Harris Hoge (April 6, 1860 – March 21, 1947) was an American attorney and Republican politician who served one term in the Virginia House of Delegates.

[2] On October 2, 1889, Hoge married Katherine Craig Taylor (1870-1956), whose father James Craig Taylor (1826–1887) had served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly as well as Attorney General of Virginia after the American Civil War.

He lost the general election to state senator Harry F. Byrd, who was transforming the Democratic political machine formerly headed by the late U.S.

Senator Thomas S. Martin into the Byrd Organization, which would hold power in the Commonwealth for the next three decades.

Samuel Hoge Sr. died on March 21, 1947, at Roanoke's Jefferson Hospital of complications after a stroke, survived by his wife and daughters.