Silas Wood

Silas Wood ( born September 14, 1769 in West Hills, New York, † March 2, 1847 in Huntington, New York) was an American professor, lawyer, politician and writer. Between 1819 and 1829 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Silas Wood was born about six years before the outbreak of the War of Independence in West Hills at Huntington and grew up there. He enjoyed a good education. He received his degree at Princeton College he made in 1789 and worked there after five years as a professor. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Huntington, where he also served for a time as federal prosecutor later. In addition, he sat 1796-1798 and 1800 in the New York State Assembly. Then he moved to Johnstown, where he pursued real estate transactions. Later he returned to Huntington, where he worked 1818-1821 as district attorney ( district attorney ) of Suffolk County. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1818 Wood was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Tredwell Scudder and George Townsend took on March 4, 1819 which previously together represented the first district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected four times in a row. Since he suffered a defeat in 1828 at its sixth candidacy, he retired after March 3, from 1829, from the Congress. As a result of fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) changed his political affiliation. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was a member of the Adams - Clay Federalist, in the congressional elections of 1824 of anti- Jacksonian Group and in the congressional elections of 1826, the Adams Group. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was 1821-1825 Chairman of the Committee on the issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State ). After the end of his last term, he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He died on 2 March 1847 in Huntington, and was then buried in the Old Public Cemetery on Main Street.

Works

• A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns of Long Iceland
• A Sketch of the Geography of the Town of Huntington

Honors

The Silas Wood School in Huntington was named after him in honor.