John Wood (congressman)

John Wood ( born September 6, 1816 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † May 28 1898 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Wood was an uncle of Congressman Alan Wood ( 1834-1902 ). Its eponymous father Alan Wood (1800-1881) was John's older brother and a successful entrepreneur in the iron and steel industry in Pennsylvania. Wood attended the schools of the Friends Society in Philadelphia and then worked 1832-1840 with his father, tools and agricultural equipment produced. From 1841 to 1844 Wood worked in the iron and steel industry in Wilmington (Delaware). In 1844 he moved to Conshohocken, where he set up its own iron melt. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Wood was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Owen Jones on March 4, 1859. Since he resigned in 1860 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1861. This was marked by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Wood took his previous activities in the iron and steel sector back on. He died on 28 May 1898 in Conshohocken and was buried in Norristown.