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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkWOOD, Silas
(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.
Kerner, Charles R. “Silas Wood: Historian, Politician and Educator.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1970.
Wood, Silas. Of the powers of Congress: On the subject of internal improvements
. Washington: Davis & Force, 1823?
———. Silas Wood’s sketch of the town of Huntington, L. I., from its first settlement to the end of the American Revolution
. Edited with genealogical and historical notes by William S. Pelletreau, A.M. New York: F. P. Harper, 1898.
———. A sketch of the first settlement of the several towns on Long Island; with their political condition, to the end of the American Revolution
. 1824. Reprint, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Printed by A. Spooner, 1828.
———. Speech of Mr. Wood, of New-York, on the Missouri question: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 14, 1820
. Washington: Davis and Force, 1820.
———. Speeches of Mr. Wood, of N. York, on the proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States [respecting the election of President and Vice President] and on the resolution making an appropriation for the Panama Mission
. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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