Political Career
On September 24, 1928, Sam A. Kozer resigned from the office of Oregon Secretary of State. Oregon Governor I. L. Patterson appointed the Republican Hoss on that same day to fill the remaining term of Kozer. Hoss then won election to a full-four year term in 1928, and won re-election in 1932 to a second four-year term. While in his first term, his office created the Operations Division and the state began to require testing to acquire a driver’s license. Hal Elden Hoss died in office on February 6, 1934, at the age of 41.
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