James Hodge Codding (July 8, 1849 – September 12, 1919) was a

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member of the

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from

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. James H. Codding was born in

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. He moved to

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, in 1854. He attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda and

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. He was engaged in the hardware business at Towanda in 1868. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Towanda in 1879. Codding was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Myron B. Wright. He was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1898. He resumed the practice of law in Towanda, and in 1903 moved to

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. He served as grand secretary general of the northern Masonic jurisdiction for the Scottish Rite bodies from 1902 until his death in

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, in 1919. Interment in Oak Hill Cemetery in Towanda, Pennsylvania.

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