Bradford R. Wood

Bradford Ripley Wood ( born September 3, 1800, Westport, Connecticut, † September 26, 1889 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bradford Ripley Wood attended community schools and graduated in 1824 from Union College in Schenectady. He then worked as a teacher and gave lectures. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School (Connecticut). His admission to the bar he received in 1827 and then began practicing in Albany. On 29 May 1827 he was Solicitor to the New York Court of Chancery and rose on June 6, 1830 Chancellor on the same court. He was 1835 Counselor at the New York Supreme Court, and in 1845 the United States Supreme Court 1844, he sat on the Board of Supervisors of Albany County.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1844 for the 29th Congress, he was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel D. Barnard on March 4, 1845. In 1846 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1847 the Congress of.

In 1851 he was president of the Young Men's Temperance Society. Wood served as a trustee at Union College, Williams College and Albany Law School. He was vice president of Albany Medical College. In 1856 he was among the founders of the Republican Party in New York. He was vice president of the American Home Missionary Society and founder of the First Congregational Church in Albany. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him on March 22, 1861 as the successor of James M. Buchanan to the Messenger (United States Ministerial ) in Denmark - a position that he held until 15 November 1865. Wood died on September 26, 1889 in Albany and was then buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery.