Hugh Beistle Woodward

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Hugh Beistle Woodward (born April 29, 1885 in Clearfield , Pennsylvania , † August 18, 1968 ) was an American lawyer and politician . He served as Lieutenant Governor in the state of New Mexico for the first half of 1929 .

Career

Hugh Beistle Woodward attended Dickinson College in Carlisle . There he made his Bachelor of Philosophy in 1908 and his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 1910 . He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1911, Colorado in 1914 , New Mexico in 1915, and the Supreme Court in 1923. During his long legal career in New Mexico, he was a strong advocate for conservation. He was active in the New Mexico Wildlife and Conservation Association , the National Audubon Society , the Izaak Walton League of America , the Wilderness Society, and the American Forestry Association .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In 1928 he was elected lieutenant governor of New Mexico - a post he held from January until his resignation in July 1929.

Woodward also served as the district attorney for the eighth judicial district of New Mexico during his tenure as lieutenant governor. He then held the post of federal attorney for New Mexico between 1929 and 1933 . He also worked in his own law firm, where he represented finance and construction companies in the south-west. He made several contributions to a National Nature and received a Nash Conservation Award in 1953 . He also actively fought against the demands of the ranchers to get control of federal grazing lands. He sat on the National Advisory Committee on Multiple Use of National Forests . Then he helped draft previous versions of the Wilderness Act . For ten years he was the regional director of the National Wildlife Federation and a board member of the National Wildlife Federation Endowment . During his tenure, he was instrumental in determining a location for the National Wildlife Federation's permanent national headquarters in Washington, DC . Dickinson College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1959 . He died on August 18, 1968.

literature

  • Blue Book 2012 (PDF; 28.9 MB) , Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State, July 2012, pp. 211f, 214 and 218
  • Official Register , Iowa. Secretary of State, Iowa General Assembly, 1929, p. 480

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SURNAME Woodward, Hugh Beistle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Clearfield , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1968