Albert Gallatin Hodges (Frankfort Commonwealth owner/editor)
b. 1802-10-08 d. 1881-03-16
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.
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Bibliography
Frank F. Mathias, "Albert Gallatin Hodges," in John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 435-36.
Citation
Hodges, Albert Gallatin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208330 (November 12, 2026).
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