George Tisdale Hodges

George Hodges Tisdale ( born July 4, 1789 in Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont; † August 9, 1860 in Rutland, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1856 and 1857 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Hodges attended the public schools of his home and was then commercially and politically active in Rutland. He was first a member of the Whig Party and, after its dissolution to the Republicans. In the years 1827 to 1829 and again from 1839 to 1840 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont. From 1845 to 1847 he was a member of the State Senate; since 1846 he was its president. In 1848 he was an elector in the presidential election, where he voted for the victorious Whig candidate Zachary Taylor. Hodges was also over 25 years as president of the Bank of Rutland.

After the death of Congressman James Meacham Hodges was the Republican candidate in the election due to his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. He was the first congressman he founded in 1854 Party of Vermont. Between December 1, 1856, the March 3, 1857 Hodges finished the opened term of his predecessor. In the regular congressional elections of 1856 he gave up for reelection.

George Hodges died on August 9, 1860 in Rutland and was also buried there.