James Hodge Codding

James Hodge Codding ( born July 8, 1849 in Pike, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † September 12, 1919 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1854, James Codding still came during his childhood Towanda, where he later attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute. He then attended Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). Since 1868, he has worked in Towanda in the hardware store. After a subsequent law degree in 1879 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Towanda to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1894 incumbent Myron Benjamin Wright was re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He died shortly after the election on November 13, 1894 for the remainder of the ongoing border legislature until March 3, 1895 Edwin J. Jorden was elected as his successor. ; the choice for the following session won James Codding, who took up his new mandate on 5 November 1895. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1899 at the Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell. In 1898 Codding on another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Codding practiced until 1903, again as a lawyer in Towanda. He then moved to Brooklyn, where he was secretary general of a Masonic Lodge in 1919 until his death on September 12.