William Hoge

William Edison Hoge (April 2, 1946 – July 5, 2025) was an American politician from California and a onetime member of the Republican Party. Businessman Bill Hoge, backed by a host of conservatives, won a 10-way GOP primary and then defeated a weak Democrat to take this seat.

Democrats, meanwhile, considered Hoge vulnerable. They noted that despite the weakness of their nominee in 1992, Hoge still performed poorly. They recruited former Pasadena police chief Bruce Philpott to run against Hoge in 1994, but he was unsuccessful. In 1996, GOP state senate minority leader Rob Hurtt of Garden Grove tried to persuade Hoge to run for an open state senate seat. Hoge declined, thinking it was a safer bet to stay in the assembly. However, he was defeated for reelection by Democrat Jack Scott, former president of Pasadena City College.

Hoge later moved to Nevada and joined the Independent American Party of Nevada, which he ran under for Nevada State Treasurer in 2018, the Nevada Assembly in 2020, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2022, and Nevada's 1st congressional district in 2024. He died on July 5, 2025, at the age of 79.

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