M. A. Hodgson

M. A. Hodgson

Member

Photo credit:

Futhey, J. Smith and GIlbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1855 Representative Whig
Counties Chester

Biography

10/05/1793 - 07/23/1868


HODGSON, Mark A., a Representative from Chester County; born, October 5, 1793 in New London Township, Chester County, Pa.; farmer; elected, delegate, State Anti-Masonic Convention (1835); appointed, justice of the peace (1838); trustee, New London Academy; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; elected, delegate, State Whig Convention (1857); died, July 23, 1868 in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery, New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 


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