Charles D. Hodges

Charles Drury Hodges (born February 4, 1810 in Queen Anne , Talbot County , Maryland , †  April 1, 1884 in Carrollton , Illinois ) was an American politician . In 1859 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Hodges attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1829 Trinity College in Hartford ( Connecticut ). After a subsequent law degree in Annapolis and his admission as a lawyer in 1831, he began to work there in his new profession. In 1833 he moved his residence and law firm to Carrollton, Illinois, where he also briefly worked in commerce. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1851 and 1853 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois ; from 1854 to 1859 he served as a judge in Greene County . In 1858 he became treasurer of the St. Louis, Jacksonville & Chicago Railroad . Later he was director of this railway company for many years.

After the death of the Congressman Thomas L. Harris , Hodges was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due by-election for the sixth seat of Illinois , where he took up his new mandate on January 4, 1859. It ended the current legislative period by March 3 of this year. For the term of office beginning March 4, 1859, for which Thomas Harris had also originally been elected, Hodges had not run. After the end of his short time in the US House of Representatives, he returned to work as a lawyer and railroad director. Between 1867 and 1873 he was a district judge; from 1873 to 1877 he was a member of the Illinois Senate . He died on April 1, 1884 in Carrollton, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Charles D. Hodges in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles D. Hodges in the database of Find a Grave (English)