Ira W. Wood

Ira Wells Wood (June 19, 1856 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – October 5, 1931 in Trenton, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1904 to 1913.He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Trenton, New Jersey.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.After leaving Congress, he resided in Trenton until his death there on October 5, 1931.
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