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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Hodges attended the public schools of his home and then to 1829 Trinity College in Hartford (Connecticut). After a subsequent study of law in Annapolis and his 1831 was admitted to the bar he began working there in his new profession. In 1833 he moved his residence and his law firm to Carrollton, Illinois, where he worked for a short time on the market. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1851 and 1853 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 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 the railway company for many years.

After the death of Mr Thomas L. Harris Hodges was at the due election for the sixth seat of Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 4, 1859. By the 3rd of March this year, he finished the current legislative period. For the period beginning on March 4, 1859 term of office, originally for Thomas Harris was also selected, Hodges was not a candidate. After the end of his short time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer and as a railway manager again. Between 1867 and 1873 he was district judge; 1873 to 1877 he was a member of the Illinois Senate. He died on April 1, 1884 in Carrollton, where he was also buried.