Biography

09/03/1745 - 06/09/1824

HODGDON, Samuel, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, September 3, 1745 in Boston, Suffolk County, Ma.; assistant quartermaster general, Light Horse Troop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Militia (1780, Revolutionary War); assistant quartermaster general (1783), deputy commissioner general (1784), and commissioner general (1788, 1792-1801) of military stores, United States Army; presidential appointee, quartermaster general, United States Army (1791-1792); merchant; elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1810-1811, 1811-1812, 1814-1815 and 1817-1818 terms; delegate, Federalist State Convention (1814); president, Philadelphia Trust and Insurance Company; died, June 9, 1824 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.