John C. Koch

This article is about the Mayor of Milwaukee. For others of a similar name, see John Koch (disambiguation).

John C. Koch (October 18, 1841 – September 9, 1907) was a Republican politician who served two terms as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Koch was born in 1841 near Hamburg, Germany. He moved with his family to Milwaukee in 1854. He became a tinner in his father's shop, Later he gained employment at John Pritzlaff Hardware Company and went on to become an executive there.

Koch received his party's nomination for lieutenant-governor in 1892. He was instead elected mayor of Milwaukee in that year, and was reelected to a second two-year term in 1894. His first term saw the Panic of 1893.

Personal life

In 1864, he married John C. Pritzlaff's daughter, Elizabeth, and they went on to have 6 sons and 3 daughters.

References

Men of Progress, Wisconsin. 1897, pages 596-597. Retrieved 6 May 29 from

Mayors of the City of Milwaukee

Juneau Wells Kilbourn Upham Walker Crocker Walker Kilbourn Cross Prentiss Page Lynde Brown Chase O'Neill Kirby Tallmadge O'Neill Phillips Ludington Hooker Ludington Butler Black Brown Stowell Wallber Brown Peck Somers Hase Koch Rauschenberger Rose Seidel Bading Hoan C. Zeidler Bohn F. Zeidler Maier Norquist Pratt Barrett

Political offices
Preceded by Henry Hase (acting mayor)	Mayor of Milwaukee 1893–1896	Succeeded by William C. Rauschenberger

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