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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJohn Stephens WOOD
(1885-1968)
WOOD, John Stephens, a
Representative from Georgia; born on a farm near Ball Ground,
Cherokee County, Ga., February 8, 1885; attended the public schools
and the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega; was
graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga.,
in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Jasper, Ga.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1917; served as solicitor general of the Blue
Ridge judicial circuit of Georgia 1921-1925, and as judge of
superior courts of the Blue Ridge judicial circuit 1925-1931;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third
Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law; elected to
the Seventy-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January
3, 1945-January 3, 1953); chairman, Committee on Un-American
Activities (Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second
Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; resumed
law practice in Canton, Ga., until failing health forced his
retirement; died in Marietta, Ga., September 12, 1968; interment in
Arlington Cemetery, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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