Gilbert M. Woodward

Gilbert Motier Woodward ( born December 25, 1835 in Washington DC, † March 13, 1913 in La Crosse, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gilbert Woodward attended the public schools of his home and then in the printing - press and business in Washington and Maryland operates. For some time he worked for the newspaper " National Intelligence ". In 1860 he moved to La Crosse in Wisconsin. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1861 admitted to the bar he began to work there in his new profession. This activity he interrupted to participate as a soldier of the Union in the Civil War. He fought among others in the battle of Gettysburg, where he was wounded.

After the war he continued his legal practice continues in La Crosse. Between 1866 and 1873 he was district attorney in La Crosse County; 1874 to 1875, he served as mayor of the city of La Crosse. Politically Woodward was initially a member of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party. Then he joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882, he was elected as its candidate in the seventh constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of the Republican Herman L. Humphrey on March 4, 1883. Since he lost to Ormsby B. Thomas in the elections of 1884, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Gilbert Woodward again worked as a lawyer in La Crosse. In 1886, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Wisconsin, where he the Republican incumbent Jeremiah McLain Rusk was defeated with about 40 percent of the vote. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, on the U.S. President Grover Cleveland was nominated for re-election. Gilbert Woodward died on March 13, 1913 in La Crosse and was also buried there.