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Solomon Lafayette Hoge (11 July 1836-23 February 1909) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 3) from 8 April 1869 to 3 March 1871 (succeeding Manuel S. Corley and preceding Robert B. Elliott) and from 4 March 1875 to 3 March 1877 (succeeding Elliott and preceding D. Wyatt Aiken).

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Solomon Lafayette Hoge was born in Pickrelltown, Ohio in 1836, and he became a lawyer in Bellefontaine in 1859. He went on to serve in the Union Army during the American Civil War, after which he settled in Columbia, South Carolina, and he served on the state Supreme Court from 1868 to 1869, in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871 and from 1875 to 1877, and as Comptroller General from 1872 to 1874. He followed most of his fellow carpetbaggers in leaving the state in 1877, serving as a bank president and lawyer in Kenton, Ohio and dying in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1909.

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