George Ezekial Hood was a politician and former United States Representative from the U.S. state

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 of North Carolina

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Biography

Hood was born near Goldsboro

Goldsboro, North Carolina

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, Wayne County, North Carolina

Wayne County, North Carolina

- Cities and towns :*Brogden*Dudley*Elroy*Eureka*Fremont*Goldsboro*Mar-Mac*Mount Olive*Pikeville*Rosewood*Seven Springs*Walnut Creek*Grantham-Geography:According to the U.S...

. 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

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. 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
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• 1901–1907 - mayor of Goldsboro
• 1912 - his name was presented as a candidate for Congress
  United States Congress
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  ; he lost out at the nominating convention
• March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919 - elected as a Democrat
  Democratic Party (United States)
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   to the Sixty-fourth
  64th United States Congress
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   and Sixty-fifth
  65th United States Congress
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  Congresses; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1918