George Washington Woodward

George Washington Woodward ( born March 26, 1809 in Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, † May 10, 1875 in Rome, Italy) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1867 and 1871 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Woodward attended Geneva Seminary, now known as Hobart College in Geneva (New York), and then the Wilkes-Barre Academy in Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Wilkes-Barre to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1837 he took part in a constitutional convention of his state as a delegate. Between 1841 and 1851 he was Chief Judge of the fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania. In 1844, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. A year later he was appointed by President James K. Polk to the Supreme Court. But this office he had to cancel, because the U.S. Senate refused to vote. From 1853 to 1862 he was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; 1863-1867 he was there Presiding Judge ( Chief Justice ). In 1863 he competed unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania.

After the death of Mr Charles Denison Woodward was at the due election for the twelfth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 21 November 1867. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1871 Congress. Until 1869, the work of the Congress of the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson was charged, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. In July 1868, Woodward was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York. Two years later he gave up another Congress candidate. In the same year, 1870, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of presiding judge in the Eleventh Judicial District of his home state.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Woodward moved to Philadelphia, where he practiced law. In 1873 he was again a delegate to a constitutional convention of his state. A year later, he embarked on a European tour, during which he died in Rome on 10 May 1875. He was buried in Wilkes - Barre.