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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkSilas WOOD
(1769-1847)
WOOD, Silas, a
Representative from New York; born in West Hills, near Huntington,
Suffolk County, N.Y., September 14, 1769; pursued classical
studies; was graduated from Princeton College in 1789 and during
the five succeeding years was a teacher at that institution;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Huntington, N.Y.; was appointed district attorney of Suffolk County
in 1818 and 1821; elected to the Sixteenth and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1829); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; died in Huntington, N.Y.,
March 2, 1847; interment in the Old Public Cemetery on Main
Street.
Bibliography
Kerner, Charles R. “Silas Wood: Historian, Politician and
Educator.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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