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James M. Hood

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State Representative
Democrat
Merchant
Fremont
13
01/10/1870 - 01/07/1872
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Born in Vermillion County, Indiana, November 18, 1827, and lived on a farm until he was of age, when he learned the telegraphers' art. In 1861 he removed to Dallas County, Iowa, where he taught school for three years at Lemon's Point. In 1863 he moved to Hamburg, Fremont County, and in 1865 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools for the term of two years; and in 1869 he was elected Representative to the State Legislature from that county. He was Mayor of the city of Hamburg in 1874, and served as a Justice of the Peace for eight years. In 1878 he removed to Hanover, Kansas, and began the publication of the Hanover Democrat, and has published the same since. He was married September 30, 1861, to Miss Climena Flanders, at Adel, Dallas County, Iowa.

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