Asa Hodges
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Asa Hodges | |
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Arkansas State Senator for Crittenden County | |
In office 1870–1873 | |
Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives | |
In office 1868 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Planter, attorney | January 22, 1822
Asa Hodges (January 22, 1822 – June 6, 1900) was an American lawyer, slaveholder, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1873 to 1875.
Biography
Born near
On April 17, 1858, he married Caroline Sarah Turpin Chick, the widow of his relative, John W. Hodges.
Slaveholder
Prior to the
.Political career
He served as delegate to the Arkansas constitutional convention in 1867. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for a partial term in 1868 and the Arkansas Senate from 1870 to 1873.
Congress
Hodges was elected as a Republican to the 43rd United States Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875) to Arkansas' First District. He did not seek reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress and was succeeded by the Democrat Lucien C. Gause.
Later career and death
Thereafter, he engaged in
He died near Marion and is interred next to his wife at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis in Shelby County.
References
- United States Congress. "Asa Hodges (id: H000671)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.