Harry C. Woodyard

Harry Chapman Woodyard ( born November 13, 1867 in Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia, † June 21, 1929 ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1927 he represented several times the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Woodyard attended the public schools of his home. After that he was grocer. He also went into the lumber business. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. 1898 Woodyard was elected to the Senate of West Virginia. In the congressional elections of 1902, he was elected in the fourth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1903, the successor of James A. Hughes, who moved to the newly created Fifth District. After three elections Woodyard could implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1911. In the elections of 1910 he was defeated by Democrat John M. Hamilton.

After the end of his time in Congress to Woodyard devoted first again his private transactions. After the death of Mr Hunter Holmes Moss, who had replaced Hamilton in 1913, Woodyard won the necessary election to its mandate. He entered this on 7 November 1916, and could exercise after a few elections to March 3, 1923. In this time were the First World War, the introduction of the nationwide women's suffrage and the prohibition law. In the elections of 1922 Woodyard lost to Democrat George William Johnson, whom he but in 1924 his hand to beat. This Woodyard could spend another term in Congress between 4 March 1925 and 3 March 1927. In 1926 he gave up another candidacy. His seat fell again to James Hughes, whom he had replaced at the beginning of his career in Congress in 1903 in the fourth constituency.

Harry Woodyard died on 21 June 1929 in his birthplace Spencer and was also buried there.