Wooda Nicholas Carr

Wooda Nicholas Carr ( born February 6, 1871 in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † June 28 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1953 ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wooda Carr attended the common schools and the local Madison College. In 1891 he graduated from the Monongahela College. In 1892 he was in Uniontown out two newspapers. After a subsequent law degree in 1895 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Uniontown to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1898 and 1904 he participated in four regional party days of the Democrats in Pennsylvania as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Carr was the 23rd electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Thomas S. Crago on March 4, 1913. Since he has not been confirmed in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Wooda Carr practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1934 and 1947 he was postmaster in Uniontown. There he is on June 28 in 1953 died.