Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood (born October 13, 1820 in Shelbyville , Kentucky , † February 21, 1900 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1865 and again from 1881 to 1883 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Wood was born in Shelbyville about five and a half years after the end of the British-American War . His family then moved to New York City, where he attended public schools and later went into the shipping business. A year before the civil war broke out , he acquired the Daily News , where he worked as editor and publisher until his death. In the same year he presided over the Democratic Editors . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1860 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Daniel E. Sickles on March 4, 1861 . Two years later, he ran for a seat in the fourth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded James Kerrigan . He retired from the after March 3, 1865 Congress of. He was a member of the New York Senate in 1866 and 1867 . He was elected to the US House of Representatives in the fifth electoral district of New York in 1880 , where he succeeded Nicholas Muller on March 4, 1881 . Wood resigned from Congress after March 3, 1883. He died on February 21, 1900 in New York City and was then buried in Calvary Cemetery , Long Island City . His brother was Congressman Fernando Wood .

plant

• Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession , 1862

Web links

• Benjamin Wood in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin Wood in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Benjamin Wood on the Mr. Lincoln and New York website

Remarks

1. ↑ The current Daily News was only founded in 1919 and is not identical to the newspaper mentioned here.