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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyIra Wells WOOD
(1856-1931)
WOOD, Ira Wells, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on June
19, 1856; was graduated from Princeton College in 1877; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in
Trenton, N.J.; was a member of the city board of education
1894-1896; served in the city council 1896-1900; president of the
Board of Trade of Trenton 1896-1900; member of the State assembly
in 1899 and 1900; commissioner for New Jersey to the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Mo., in 1904; delegate to
the Interparliamentary Peace Union at Brussels, Belgium, in 1905;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of William M. Lanning; reelected
to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and
served from November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1913; declined to be a
candidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress; resided in
Trenton, N.J., until his death there on October 5, 1931; interment
in Mercer Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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