Stewart L. Woodford

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Stewart L. Woodford (ca.1909)

Stewart Lyndon Woodford (born September 3, 1835 in New York City , †  February 14, 1913 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Stewart Woodford graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University ) in New York in 1854 . He studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1857, and then began practicing in New York. Woodford attended the Republican National Conventions as a delegate in 1860 and 1872 . He served as assistant prosecutor in New York City in 1861 and 1862. During the civil war he served in the Union army . He held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the 127th New York Volunteers from September 8, 1862 . Woodford later joined the 103rd United States Colored Infantry , where he was promoted to Colonel on March 3, 1865 . On May 12, 1865, he was promoted to Brevet - Brigadier General of the Volunteers. Woodford resigned from the army on August 23, 1865. He was the first commander of the Military Union in Charleston ( South Carolina ) and Savannah ( Georgia ).

Woodford was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1867 to 1869 . He then ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York in 1870 . He was elected to the 43rd Congress , where he remained from March 4, 1873 until his resignation on July 1, 1874. He then held the post of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York between 1877 and 1883 . On June 19, 1897 he was appointed ambassador to Spain , a position he held until his resignation on September 20, 1898. After returning to the United States, he resumed his practice as a lawyer. He died in New York in 1913 and his body was transferred to Stamford , Connecticut , where he was buried in Woodland Cemetery .

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