Kaneaster Hodges

Kaneaster Hodges

Kaneaster Hodges junior (born August 20, 1938 in Newport , Jackson County , Arkansas ) is a former American politician of the Democratic Party . He represented the state of Arkansas in the US Senate .

Kaneaster Hodges first attended public schools and then Princeton University in New Jersey . He graduated there in 1960. He continued his education at the Graduate School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas , where he graduated in 1963; this was followed by the law exam at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1967. Immediately afterwards he was admitted to the Arkansas Bar Association.

After professional activities as a lay preacher, lawyer and farmer as well as a hospital chaplain, Hodges joined his hometown Newport in 1967, where he was employed as a trial attorney and deputy prosecutor until 1974. From 1974 to 1976 he was chairman of the Arkansas Natural Heritage Committee; then he sat on the state hunting and fishing commission until 1977. In 1975 he served as Secretary to Governor David Pryor's staff .

Pryor named Hodges on December 10, 1977 as the successor to the recently deceased US Senator John Little McClellan . He held this mandate until January 3, 1979; the Arkansas Constitution prohibited him from running for the next legislature. He was succeeded by David Pryor. Hodges then withdrew from politics; he is retiring in his native Newport.

Web links

• Kaneaster Hodges in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)