Samuel H. Woodson (politician, 1815)

Samuel H. Woodson (1859)

Samuel Hughes Woodson (born October 24, 1815 in Nicholasville , Kentucky , †  June 23, 1881 in Independence , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Woodson was the son of the Kentucky Congressman of the same name, Samuel H. Woodson (1777-1827). He attended public schools in his home country and then Center College in Danville . After a subsequent law degree at Transylvania University in Lexington and his admission as a lawyer in 1838, he began to work in Independence in this profession from 1840. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the short-lived American Party . He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1853 and 1854 . In 1855 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the state constitution.

In the congressional election of 1856 Woodson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Thomas Peter Akers on March 4, 1857 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war .

In 1860 Woodson declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to practice as a lawyer in Independence. Politically, he switched to the Democratic Party . From 1875 he was a judge in the 24th Judicial District of Missouri. He held this office until his death on June 23, 1881 in his hometown of Independence.

Web links

• Samuel H. Woodson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)