Grant M. Hudson

Grant Martin Hudson ( born July 23, 1868 in Eaton, Lorain County, Ohio, † October 26, 1955 in Kalamazoo, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1931 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Grant Hudson attended the public schools of his home and then the Kalamazoo College in Michigan. He then studied at the University of Chicago. Between 1894 and 1896 he was also chaplain in Dowagiac (Michigan). From 1896 he was in Schoolcraft, a village in Kalamazoo County, engaged in trade. Politically, Hudson member of the Republican Party. Between 1905 and 1909 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan; 1909 to 1911 he was mayor of Schoolcraft. In the years 1920 and 1921, Hudson was a member of the State Compensation Commission for industrial accidents.

In the congressional elections of 1922 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Patrick H. Kelley on March 4, 1923. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 four legislative sessions. Between 1925 and 1927 he was chairman of the Committee for the control of the alcohol trade ban.

1930 Hudson was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he worked in Lansing in the insurance industry. In 1939, he served as Purchasing Agent for the State purchases of Michigan; In 1940 he served as tax commissioner of his home state. Then he withdrew into retirement. Grant Hudson died on October 26, 1955 in Kalamazoo and was buried in Lansing.

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