George C. Woodruff (representative)

George Catlin Woodruff ( born December 1, 1805 in Litchfield, Connecticut, † November 21, 1885 ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Woodruff attended until 1825, the Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1827 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Litchfield. From 1832 to 1846 he was with a small break in 1842 also postmaster in this city.

Politically, Woodruff was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1851 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In the congressional elections of 1860 he was in the fourth electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he joined March 4, 1861 is the successor of the Republican Orris S. Ferry. Since he lost to John Henry Hubbard already at the next election in 1862, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1863, only one term in Congress, which was determined by the events of the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Woodruff again worked as a lawyer. In the years 1866 and 1874 he was again elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. He died on 21 November 1885 in his native Litchfield.