HEDGE, Thomas

HEDGE

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer
Date: 11/10/2008 at 11:05:37

THOMAS HEDGE was born at Burlington in the Territory of Iowa, on the 24th of June, 1844. He received a college education, graduating from Yale in 1867 and from Columbia Law Department in 1869. He served as a lieutenant in a New York regiment during the Civil War and, returning to Burlington, entered upon the practice of law. In 1898 he was elected on the Republican ticket to Congress from the First District, was reelected in 1900 and again in 1902.