George Baird Hodge

Birth Date

1828-04-08

Death Date

1892-08-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kentucky soldier, attorney, and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Married to Keturah Moss Tibbatts Hodge. Father of S. Catherine Taylor Hodge, Anna Taylor Hodge, Jane “Nan” Hodge, Mary Hodge, William Baird Hodge, Georgena Baird Hodge, and John T. Hodge. Attended the Maysville Seminary, Mason County, Kentucky. Graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1845. Served in the U.S Navy as a midshipman during U.S.-Mexican War. Resigned from the U.S. Navy in 1850. Attorney in Mason County, Kentucky in 1850. Member of the Whig Party and Southern Democratic Party. Ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party in 1852. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1859. Elector for John C. Breckinridge in 1860. Attorney in Campbell County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Served in the Confederate States Army as a private, captain, major, colonel, and brigadier general. Served as an assistant adjutant general to John C. Breckinridge. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Member of House of Representatives for the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 133B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 415.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, City of Newport, p. 309A.
“Gen. Geo. B. Hodge, a Former Kentuckian, Found Dead Near His Florida Home,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 15, 1892.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 238, 264, 346-7, 416, 418.
Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 121-122.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 92.
“George Baird Hodge (1828-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 8926, accessed January 18, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8926.

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