Ira W. Wood
U.S. Congressperson
1856 – 1931
Who was Ira W. Wood?
Ira Wells Wood was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1904 to 1913.
Walsh was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1856. He graduated from Princeton College in 1877. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Trenton, New Jersey. In Trenton, he was a member of the city board of education from 1894โ1896, served in the city council from 1896โ1900, and was president of the Board of Trade of Trenton from 1896โ1900. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1899 and 1900. He was commissioner for New Jersey to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, and was a delegate to the Interparliamentary Peace Union in Brussels, Belgium, in 1905.
Wood was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William M. Lanning. He was reelected to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1913, but declined to be a candidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.
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- Born
- Jun 19, 1856
Wilkes-Barre - Also known as
- Ira Wood
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- Trenton
- Wilkes-Barre
- Died
- Oct 5, 1931
Trenton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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