Served in the United States Army in 1964 and in the Army Reserves from 1965 to 1970.
From 1966 to 1969 he was Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the New York Post, then the Post's city editor and metropolitan editor until 1976.
Graduated from the Trinity School and Yale University.
Has a brother James Jr. and two sisters, Barbara and Virginia.
In July 2008 he left The New York Times to become the vice president for external relations at the International Peace Institute, a New York-based think tank.
Undertook graduate studies at George Washington University.
Began his career as a journalist at the Washington Star (1964 to 1966).
Son of James F. Hoge, Sr. and Virginia McClamroch.
Passed a way nearly a month before his brother Jim Hoge.