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Jan 22, 1822 Moulton, Alabama, United States Died on 06 Jun 1900 (aged 78)
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About Asa Hodges
- Asa Hodges (January 22, 1822 – June 6, 1900) was a one-term U.S.
- Representative for Arkansas's 1st congressional district, with service from 1873 to 1875. Born near Moulton in Lawrence County in northern Alabama, Hodges moved to Marion in Crittenden County in northeastern Arkansas.
- He attended La Grange Male and Female College in LaGrange, Missouri, now part of Hannibal-LaGrange University in Hannibal, Missouri.
- He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and practiced until 1860.
- Prior to the American Civil War, Hodges owned many slaves near Memphis, Tennessee. 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. 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.
- Thereafter, he engaged in farming.
