George P. Codd

George Pierre Codd ( born December 7, 1869 in Detroit, Michigan, † February 16, 1927 ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Codd attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1892 admitted to the bar he began in Detroit to work in his new profession. From 1894 to 1897 he was deputy city attorney in his hometown.

Politically, Codd member of the Republican Party. From 1902 to 1904 he sat on the city council of Detroit; 1905-1906, he was a follower of William C. Maybury mayor of this city. In 1908 Codd was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the William Howard Taft was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. In the years 1911-1921 Codd served as district judge in Wayne County. He was also a 1910-1911 as regent to the governing body of the University of Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1920, Codd was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank Ellsworth Doremus on March 4, 1921. Since he resigned in 1922 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1923. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Codd initially worked as a lawyer again. Since 1924 he was back district judge in Wayne County. This office he held until his death on 16 February 1927. He was married since 1894 with Kathleen Warner, with whom he had three children. His wife was the daughter of his partner in the firm in which he was working.

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