James Hodge Codding

James Hodge Codding (1896)

James Hodge Codding (born July 8, 1849 in Pike , Bradford County , Pennsylvania , †  September 12, 1919 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1854, James Codding came to Towanda while still a child , where he later attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute . He then graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). From 1868 he worked in the hardware store in Towanda. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1879, he began to work in Towanda in this profession. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1894 incumbent Myron Benjamin Wright was re-elected to the US House of Representatives. He died shortly after the election on November 13, 1894. For the remaining time of the current legislative period up to March 3, 1895, Edwin J. Jorden was elected as his successor; the election for the following session was won by James Codding, who took up his new mandate on November 5, 1895. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1899 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . In 1898 Codding for another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, James Codding practiced as a lawyer in Towanda again until 1903. He then moved to Brooklyn , where he was general secretary of a Masonic lodge until his death on September 12, 1919.

Web links

• James Hodge Codding in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Hodge Codding in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Edwin J. Jorden	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (15th constituency) November 5, 1895 - March 3, 1899	Charles Frederick Wright