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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriSamuel Hughes WOODSON
(1815-1881)
WOODSON, Samuel Hughes,
(son of Samuel Hughes Woodson [1777-1827]), a Representative from
Missouri; born near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky., October
24, 1815; attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre
College, Danville, Ky., and the law department of Transylvania
University, Lexington, Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1838 and
commenced the practice of law in Independence, Jackson County, Mo.,
in 1840; member of the State house of representatives in 1853 and
1854; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1855;
elected on the American Party ticket to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of his
profession in Independence; became affiliated with the Democratic
Party; was judge of the twenty-fourth judicial circuit of Missouri
from March 1875 until his death in Independence, Mo., June 23,
1881; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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