Albert Gallatin Hodges

Birth Date

1802-10-08

Death Date

1881-03-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Madison County, Virginia native. Son of Francis Hodges and Mary Brock Hodges. Fayette County, Kentucky, resident in 1810. Office boy for the Kentucky Reporter in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1815. Editor of the Lancaster Kentuckian in 1822. Editor of the Lexington Semi-Weekly Morning Post in partnership with D. C. Pinkham and William Tanner from 1824 to 1826. Owned the Kentucky Whig in Lexington in 1826. Owned the Frankfort Commentator in Frankfort in 1826. Published Lights and Shadows in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1832. Partner with Orlando Brown in the
Frankfort Commonwealth in Frankfort from 1833 to 1872.

Frank F. Mathias, "Albert Gallatin Hodges," in John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 435-36.

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