Gilbert M. Woodward

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Gilbert Motier Woodward (born December 25, 1835 in Washington, DC , †  March 13, 1913 in La Crosse , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gilbert Woodward attended his homeland public schools and then worked in the printing and press business in Washington and Maryland . For some time he worked for the National Intelligence newspaper. In 1860 he moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1861, he began to work there in his new profession. He interrupted this activity to take part in the civil war as a Union soldier . He fought, among other things, in the battle of Gettysburg , in which he was wounded.

After the war he continued his legal practice in La Crosse. Between 1866 and 1873 he was a district attorney in La Crosse County ; from 1874 to 1875 he served as mayor of the city of La Crosse. Politically, Woodward was initially a member of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party . Then he joined the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1882 he was elected as their candidate in the seventh constituency of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Republican Herman L. Humphrey on March 4, 1883 . Since he lost to Ormsby B. Thomas in the elections of 1884 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1885 .

After retiring from the US House of Representatives, Gilbert Woodward returned to La Crosse as a lawyer. In 1886 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wisconsin, losing to Republican incumbent Jeremiah McLain Rusk with just under 40 percent of the vote . In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , on which US President Grover Cleveland was nominated for re-election. Gilbert Woodward died on March 13, 1913 in La Crosse and was buried there.

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SURNAME Woodward, Gilbert M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodward, Gilbert Motier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1913
Place of death La Crosse , Wisconsin