Henry Clay Hodges Jr. (April 20, 1860 – July 15, 1963) was a United States Army officer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hodges was appointed to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, by Ulysses S. Grant, who was friends with his father,[3] and he graduated in 1881.

Hodges served as an aide to General Christopher C. Augur from 1884 to 1885, and he worked at USMA in 1886 as an assistant professor of mathematics.

Hodges taught at the Groton School and then at the University of New Hampshire as Professor of Military Science and Tactics.

[5] After serving as Secretary of the General Staff from June 11, 1913, to August 31, 1914, he went to the 17th Infantry Regiment in Eagle Pass, Texas because of the Border War.

[1] Hodges was promoted to the rank of major general on August 5, 1917, almost three months after the American entry into World War I, and assumed command over the 39th Division at Camp Beauregard.