Asa Hodges
Asa Hodges (January 22, 1822 – June 6, 1900) was an American lawyer, slaveholder, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1873 to 1875.On April 17, 1858, he married Caroline Sarah Turpin Chick, the widow of his relative, John W. Hodges.Prior to the American Civil War, Hodges owned many slaves near Memphis, Tennessee.He did not seek reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress and was succeeded by the Democrat Lucien C. Gause.He died near Marion and is interred next to his wife at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis in Shelby County.