- Wooda Nicholas Carr
Wooda Nicholas Carr (
February 6 ,1871 –June 28 ,1953 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania . His son was the mystery novelist John Dickson Carr.Wooda N. Carr was born in
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now a part ofPittsburgh, Pennsylvania ). He attended the public schools andMadison College . He graduated fromMonongahela College inPennsylvania , in 1891. He was editor of the "Uniontown News " and the "Uniontown Democrat " in 1892. He studied law, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Uniontown. He was a delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1904.Carr was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He resumed the practice of law and was appointed
postmaster ofUniontown, Pennsylvania , in 1934 and served until his retirement in 1947. He died in Uniontown. Interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.ources
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