Background
Daniel Hoch was born on a farm near Reading, 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 elected as a Democrat to the 78th and 79th Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946.
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.