{{Short description|English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} '''Luke Hodges''' was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

Hodges was the Sheriff of Bristol in the year 1638. In 1643, he was appointed to the parliamentary committee to assess Bristol and was restored to his position as common councillor for Bristol by the parliament in 1645.<ref name=Williams>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494953#page/n125/mode/2up W R Williams ''Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester'']</ref> In January 1646, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol in the Long Parliament and sat until 1653.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref> In 1649 he was one of the members given instructions for the preservation of timber in the Forest of Dean. He became a militia commissioner for Bristol in 1655.<ref name=Williams/>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Bristol | before= John Glanville | before2= John Tailer | with= Richard Aldworth | years=1646–1653 | after= Not represented in Barebones Parliament }} {{s-end}}

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