Walter A. Wood

Walter Abbott Wood ( born October 23, 1815 in Mason, New Hampshire, † January 15, 1892 in Hoosick Falls, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Abbott Wood was born about eight months after the end of the British - American War in Mason. The family moved in 1816 to New York and settled in Rensselaerville. There he attended community schools. In 1835 he moved to Hoosick Falls, where he pursued an activity as an inventor and manufacturer of harvesting machinery, lawn mowers and Mähbindern. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1878 for the 46th Congress Wood was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martin I. Townsend on March 4, 1879. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1882, he retired after March 3, 1883 from the Congress.

After his conference time he returned to Hoosick Falls and resumed his former business activities. On January 15, 1892, he died there and was buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery.