Brandon P. Hodges

Brandon Hodges, an attorney from Buncombe County, represented the 31st District in the State Senate from 1943 to 1945. He was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1945 and a member of the Advisory Budget Commission the following year. In 1947, Governor Gregg Cherry named Hodges his executive general counsel. He served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Western Carolina Teachers College and also as a member of the State Education Commission 1947-1948.

In 1948, he became the Democratic nominee for Treasurer, was elected in November and took office January 6, 1949. Hodges was re-elected in 1952, but resigned just six months into his second term to return to private business. He became counsel to Champion Paper and Fibre Company. In 1955 Governor Luther Hodges (no relation) appointed Brandon Hodges to serve as chairman of the State's first modern day Tax Study Commission and in 1957 he was named chairman of the State Property Tax Commission. 1

1 Jerry L. Cross, "Biographical Sketches of Seven State Treasurers" (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1994), 2.

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