Roy O. Woodruff

Roy O. Woodruff

Roy Orchard Woodruff (born March 14, 1876 in Eaton Rapids , Eaton County , Michigan , †  February 12, 1953 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915, and again from 1921 to 1953, he represented Michigan's 10th Congressional District, Michigan, in the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Roy Woodruff attended his home public schools including Eaton Rapids High School. Between 1891 and 1899 he completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 he was a corporal in a Michigan infantry unit . He then studied dentistry in Detroit . After his license as a dentist in 1902, he worked in his new profession in Bay City between 1902 and 1911 . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Progressive Party .

Woodruff was Mayor of Bay City from 1911 to 1913. In the 1912 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the tenth constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded George A. Loud on March 4, 1913 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1914, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1915 . Then his mandate fell back to George Loud.

During World War I Woodruff was a major in an infantry unit. In the elections of 1920 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives as a candidate for the Republican Party , which he had since joined. There he replaced Gilbert A. Currie on March 4, 1921 . After 15 re-elections, he was able to spend 16 more legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1953. In this time in the late 1920s was the Great Depression . In the 1930s, most of the federal government's New Deall laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . From the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the work of Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . After the war, Woodruff experienced the beginning of the Cold War and the Korean War as a congressman, as well as the beginning of the civil rights movement . During his tenure as Congressman, the 20th , 21st and 22nd amendments were passed.

In 1952, Roy Woodruff declined to run again. He resigned from the US House of Representatives on January 3, 1953 and died just a few weeks later on February 12 of the same year in the federal capital, Washington. He was then buried in Bay City, Michigan .

Web links

• Roy O. Woodruff in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Roy O. Woodruff in the database of Find a Grave (English)