Education
He attended Louisiana Grange Male and Female College in LaGrange, Missouri, now part of Hannibal-LaGrange University in Hannibal, Missouri. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and practiced until 1860.
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Asa Hodges
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Career
Born near Moulton in Lawrence County in northern Alabama, Hodges moved to Marion in Crittenden County in northeastern Arkansas. Prior to the American Civil War, Hodges owned a large number of slaves near Memphis, Tennessee. He served as delegate to the Arkansas constitutional convention in 1867.
Hodges was elected as a Republican to the 43rd United States Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875) to Arkansas" First District.
He did not seek reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress and was succeeded by the Democrat Lucien C. Gause. He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Membership
He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1868 and the Arkansas Senate from 1870 to 1873.
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Political Party
Republican party