George E. Hood
George Ezekial Hood was a politician and former United States Representative from the U.S. state of North Carolina.
Biography
Hood was born near Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina. He attended public schools there and became a telegraph operator.He studied law and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1896 and commenced practice in Goldsboro.
From 1899 to 1909, he was a captain and subsequently promoted to colonel in the Second Regiment of the North Carolina National Guard. Hood held several local, state and national political offices between 1896 and 1919, including a member of the United States House of Representatives. He then returned to practice law in Goldsboro.
Hood died in Goldsboro and is interred in Willow Dale Cemetery.
Political career
- 1896-1900 - secretary of the Wayne County Democratic executive committee
- 1898-1900 - treasurer of Wayne County
- 1899-1901 - representative in the North Carolina House of Representatives
- 1901-1907 - mayor of Goldsboro
- 1912 - his name was presented as a candidate for Congress; he lost out at the nominating convention
- March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1919 - elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1918