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Solomon L. Hoge

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

(July 11, 1836 — February 23, 1909) Hoge was a lawyer, judge, and politician. Solomon Lafayette Hoge was born in Logan County, Ohio and moved to South Carolina after the Civil War. Hoge graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1859 and was admitted to the bar that same year. He practiced law in Ohio until he entered the Union Army in 1861. After the war, he relocated to Columbia, South Carolina, where he was appointed as an associate justice to the State Supreme Court and served from 1868 to 1870. He successfully contested the election of J. P. Reed to the Forty-First Congress and succeeded Reed, serving from April 8, 1869 to March 3, 1871, as a Republican. He was again elected to the Forty-Fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000698]

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