Ira W. Wood

Infobox Congressman
name = Ira Wells Wood


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state = New Jersey
district = 4th
party = Republican
term = November 8, 1904 — March 3, 1913
preceded = William M. Lanning (R)
succeeded = Allan B. Walsh (D)
date of birth = June 19, 1856
place of birth = Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
date of death = October 5, 1931
place of death = Trenton, New Jersey, USA
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profession = Politician
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Ira Wells Wood (June 19, 1856, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - October 5, 1931, Trenton, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented ushr|New Jersey|4 from 1904 to 1913.

Walsh was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1856. He graduated from Princeton College in 1877. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Trenton, New Jersey. In Trenton, he was a member of the city board of education from 1894-1896, served in the city council from 1896-1900, and was president of the Board of Trade of Trenton from 1896-1900. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1899 and 1900. He was commissioner for New Jersey to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, and was a delegate to the Interparliamentary Peace Union in Brussels, Belgium, in 1905.

Wood was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William M. Lanning. He was reelected to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1913, but declined to be a candidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.

After leaving Congress, he resided in Trenton until his death there on October 5, 1931. He was interred in Trenton's Mercer Cemetery.

External links

*CongBio|W000695
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood4.html#R9M0JI26P Ira Wells Wood] at The Political Graveyard
*Findagrave|10203024|Ira Wells Wood