Asa Hodges

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(January 22, 1822 — June 6, 1900) Hodges was a lawyer and public servant. Asa Hodges was born in Lawrence County, Alabama and moved to Marion, Arkansas. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1848, he practiced law in Alabama until 1860. He served in the State House of Representatives (1868) and State Senate (1870-1873) before being elected as a Republican to the Forty-Third Congress. He served in Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000671]

Member of Arkansas Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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