Grant Martin Hudson was a politician from the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Michigan

Michigan

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Hudson was born in Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio

Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio

Eaton Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 9,675 people in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...

. He attended the common school

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s and graduated from Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo College

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, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo, Michigan

The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium. Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park. The Hopewell civilization began to...

. He also attended the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He was minister at Dowagiac, Michigan

Dowagiac, Michigan

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, 1894–1896, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Schoolcraft, Michigan

Schoolcraft, Michigan

-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Schoolcraft is located on a prairie, and much of the land outside of the village is used as farm land, with the primary crops being corn and soybeans.-Demographics:...

, in 1896. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1905–1909, and was president of the village of Schoolcraft, 1909–1911. He was a member of the State industrial accident compensation commission in 1920 and 1921.

Hudson was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 6th congressional district

Michigan's 6th congressional district

Michigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of southern and eastern Allegan and a portion of western Calhoun counties.-Major...

 to the 68th United States Congress

68th United States Congress

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 and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1931). He served as chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic

United States House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic

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 in the 69th Congress

69th United States Congress

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930, losing to Seymour H. Person

Seymour H. Person

Seymour Howe Person was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Person was born on a farm near Howell, Michigan and attended the district schools and the Howell public schools. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1901...

 in the Republican primary election.

Hudson engaged in the insurance business in Lansing, Michigan

Lansing, Michigan

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. He was State purchasing agent in 1939 and State tax commissioner in 1940. Hudson died in Kalamazoo and was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing.