William R. Wood (Indiana)

William Robert Wood ( born January 5, 1861 in Oxford, Benton County, Indiana, † March 7, 1933 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wood attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1882 admitted to the bar he began working in Lafayette in this profession. Between 1890 and 1894 he was district attorney in the local Tippecanoe County. Politically, Wood joined the Republican Party. Between 1896 and 1914 he was a member of the Senate of Indiana, which he was president from 1899 to 1907. He also led at times the republican faction. In the years 1912, 1916, 1920 and 1924 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Wood was in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John B. Peterson on March 4, 1915. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 nine legislative sessions. In this time were, among other things, the First World War and the Great Depression. In the years 1919, 1920 and 1933, the 18th, the 19th and the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Between 1920 and 1933, headed Wood the Republican National Congressional Committee. From 1929 to 1931 he was chairman of the Budget Committee.

In the 1932 elections the Democrats defeated William Wood Finly H. Gray. He died on March 7, 1933, just four days after the expiration of his last term in Congress, during a visit to New York.