College of Law Class of 1924
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Class Year
1924
Description
Astor Hogg, LL.B.
Roxana, Kentucky
Men’s Student Council (4); Su-Ky Circle (4); President Henry Clay Law Society (4); Band (1, 2); Secretary Democratic Club (4).
A rising young lawyer is Astor,
With habits not known to a pastor,
But when he essays to plead
He goes at third speed,
And later will go appreciably faster.
Astor was one of the leading lights of the Law College, and the mentor of the Student Council. He will practice law in Lexington.
-The Kentuckian, 1924
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Astor Hogg (November 13, 1901 - August 5, 1972) was born in Letcher County, Kentucky to George Hogg and Mahala Combs. Hogg practiced law in Whitesburg. He was elected mayor of Whitesburg in 1927. In 1929, Hogg was elected Letcher County attorney. Hogg moved to Washington, D.C. in 1934 where he worked as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission and as a Special Assistant Attorney General. He returned to his Whitesburg practice in 1939. Hogg served as Commonwealth's Attorney for the Twenty-sixth Judicial District between 1942-1945. From 1951 to 1955, Hogg served as a Circuit Judge in Harlan County. He served on the Kentucky of Appeals between 1958-1959. He then became the administrative director of the Courts of Kentucky--a position he held for more than a decade. Hogg married Gertrude Lewis in 1927.
