Horatio Clarence Hocken

The Honourable Horatio Clarence Hocken
Senator for Toronto, Ontario
In office December 30, 1933 – February 18, 1937
Appointed by	R. B. Bennett
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Toronto West Centre
In office 1925–1930
Preceded by	The riding was created in 1924.
Succeeded by	Samuel Factor
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Toronto West
In office 1917–1925
Preceded by	Edmund Boyd Osler
Succeeded by	The riding was abolished in 1924.
36th Mayor of Toronto
In office 1912–1914
Preceded by	George Reginald Geary
Succeeded by	Thomas Langton Church
Personal details
Born	(1857-10-12)October 12, 1857 Toronto, Canada West
Died	February 18, 1937(1937-02-18) (aged 79) Toronto General Hospital
Political party	Unionist Party Conservative Party
Spouse	Isabella Page (m. 1880, d.1937)
Children	4

Horatio Clarence Hocken (October 12, 1857 – February 18, 1937) was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer, a founder of what became the Toronto Star and Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of British America from 1914 to 1918.

Born in Toronto in what was pre-Confederation Canada West, Hocken had a media career as a printer, publisher and journalist. After working as a typesetter at the Toronto Globe at which he led a strike, Hocken, in 1892, Hocken was a foremen in the print room of the Toronto News when the Typographical Union went on strike. He and 20 other strikers founded the Evening Star as a strike paper with Hocken as the new paper's business manager.^[1] He subsequently left the Star and returned to the News where he became city editor. In 1905 he purchased The Orange Sentinel, a weekly newspaper serving supporters of the Orange Order.