- Roy O. Woodruff
Roy Orchard Woodruff (
March 14 ,1876 -February 12 ,1953 ) was a politician, soldier, printer and dentist from theU.S. state ofMichigan .Woodruff was born of Scottish and English ancestry to Charles Woodruff and Electa A. (Wallace) Woodruff in
Eaton Rapids, Michigan . He attended thecommon school s and the high school of Eaton Rapids, and apprenticed to the printing business from 1891 to 1899. He enlisted as a corporal in Company G, Thirty-third Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, during theSpanish-American War . He saw active service and was mustered out.Woodruff graduated from the dental department of the
Detroit College of Medicine in 1902 and practiced dentistry in Bay City from 1902 to 1911. In 1906 he married Vera May Hall, the daughter of Michigan Republican State Central Committee member De Vere Hall. He was mayor of Bay City from 1911 to 1913.In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican
U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party fromMichigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving fromMarch 4 ,1913 toMarch 3 ,1915 . Woodruff and William J. MacDonald (12th district) were the only two Michiganders elected to the U.S. House from the Progressive Party. He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1914 and served for two years in theFirst World War as an Infantry officer, acquiring the rank ofmajor during his service inFrance .In 1920, Woodruff returned to Congress, elected as a Republican from the same district to the 67th Congress. He was subsequently re-elected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses, serving from
March 4 ,1921 toJanuary 3 ,1953 . OnJune 11 ,1921 , just three months after returning to office, he married his second wife Daisy E. Fish. He was re-elected unopposed in 1922 and 1926 and was alternate delegate toRepublican National Convention from Michigan in 1940. He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1952 to the 83rd Congress.Roy O. Woodruff was a
Baptist , laterPresbyterian and a member of theAmerican Dental Association ,American Legion ,United Spanish War Veterans , Freemasons, Elks, and Odd Fellows. He died inWashington, D.C. a little over a month after leaving office and a month before his seventy-seventh birthday. He is interred in Elm Lawn Cemetery of Bay City.References
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