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Preceded by
  
Role
  
U.S. representative

Resting place
  
Greenwood Cemetery

Name
  
John Woods

Resigned
  
March 3, 1829

Succeeded by
  
James Shields

Preceded by
  
Party
  
Whig Party


John Woods (Ohio politician)

Born
  
October 18, 1794Johnstown, Pennsylvania (
1794-10-18
)

Died
  
July 30, 1855, Hamilton, Ohio, United States

Political party
  
Adams Party, Whig

John Woods (October 18, 1794 – July 30, 1855) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Woods moved with his parents to Ohio, where he attended the common schools. As a young man, he served in the War of 1812. After the war he operated a school near Springborough for two years. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced the practice of his profession in Hamilton, Ohio. From 1820 to 1825, he served as prosecuting attorney of Butler County.

Woods was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829). He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress. In 1829 he became editor and publisher of the Hamilton Intelligencer. He served as state auditor of Ohio from 1845 to 1852 as a Whig. Woods was also president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railroad.

He died in Hamilton, Ohio on July 30, 1855. He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

References

John Woods (Ohio politician) Wikipedia


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