John Hodgson (Wisconsin politician)

John Hodgson was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Hodgson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1812.[1] In 1840, he married Cassandra M. Blake in Pontiac, Michigan. They would have six children, including Manville S. Hodgson, before her death on January 5, 1860. In December of that year, Hodgson married Esther Enos. He had settled in what is now Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1842. Hodgson died there on December 22, 1869.

Senate career

Hodgson was elected to the Senate in 1861. He was a Republican.[2]

gollark: No, it would do the same thing.
gollark: When you loop over the tuple, `i` is *also* a new thing which can't affect the variables in the tuple.
gollark: (not that you can mutate tuples anyway)
gollark: So when you have `(a, b, c, d)` that (conceptually) creates a new copy of `b`, changes to which won't affect the original variable `b`.
gollark: Basically, `b` is just an integer so it's copied each time it's used somewhere.

References
  1. Portrait and Biographical Record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Excelsior Publishing Co. 1894. pp. 808–809. Retrieved 2015-09-03. John Hodgson+Wisconsin.
  2. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1880. pp. 606–608. Retrieved 2015-09-03. John Hodgson+Wisconsin+biography+Joseph Bond.
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