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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Wood, John Stephens
Wood, John Stephens, a Representative from Georgia; born on a farm near Ball Ground, Cherokee County, Ga., February 8, 1885; attended the public schools and the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega; was graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Jasper, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives in 1917; served as solicitor general of the Blue Ridge judicial circuit of Georgia 1921-1925, and as judge of superior courts of the Blue Ridge judicial circuit 1925-1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1949). Reelected to the Eighty-first Congress.
WOOD, Joseph, a Delegate from Georgia; born in Pennsylvania in 1712; moved to Sunbury, St. John’s Parish (afterward Liberty County), Ga., about 1774; served in the Revolutionary War as major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the Second Pennsylvania Battalion, which later became the Third Pennsylvania Regiment, and was on duty in Canada in 1776; returned to Georgia and engaged in planting; member of the State council of safety; Member of the Continental Congress 1777-1779; died on his plantation near Sunbury, Ga., in September 1791.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Wood, John Stephens," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2040 Original Sources, accessed July 1, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=11FV94MACIQ7ID2.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Wood, John Stephens." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2040, Original Sources. 1 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=11FV94MACIQ7ID2.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Wood, John Stephens' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2040. Original Sources, retrieved 1 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=11FV94MACIQ7ID2.
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