John Wood (politician, 1816)

John Wood (born September 6, 1816 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , †  May 28, 1898 in Conshohocken , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Wood was an uncle of Congressman Alan Wood (1834-1902). His father of the same name, Alan Wood (1800–1881), was John's older brother and a successful entrepreneur in the iron and steel industry in Pennsylvania. Wood attended the Friends Society schools in Philadelphia and then worked for his father between 1832 and 1840, who made tools and farm implements. From 1841 to 1844 Wood was in the iron and steel industry in Wilmington ( Delaware active). In 1844 he moved to Conshohocken, where he set up his own iron smelter. Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In the congressional election of 1858 Wood was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Democrat Owen Jones on March 4, 1859 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1860, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1861 . This was shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, John Wood resumed his previous activities in the iron and steel industry. He died on May 28, 1898 in Conshohocken and was buried in Norristown .

Web links

• John Wood in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Wood in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Owen Jones	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (5th constituency) March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1861	William Morris Davis