Biography

03/03/1861 - 01/18/1928

William Speer Woods (R44) Allegheny (Part) County 1903-1906

Early Life:

William Speer Woods, born March 3, 1861, Allegheny City Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; son of David and Nancy Woods; Pittsburgh public school education; admitted, Allegheny County bar, 1888; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1903-1906; bachelor; died, January 18, 1928, home, 6636 Dalzall Place, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interment, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Admitted to practice before, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, United States District and Circuit Courts for Western District of Pennsylvania, 1890. 
Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Common Council, Twenty- second ward, Pittsburgh, 1902

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 44th district, Allegheny (Part) County, 1903-1906; standing committee assignments, Senate of Pennsylvania, extraordinary and regular session, 1906, Congressional Apportionment, Education, Exposition Affairs, Finance, Game and Fisheries, Judiciary General, Municipal Affairs, Public Printing.

Extraordinary session, legislation accomplished by the Senate, 1906, personal registration law, direct primary legislation, enacted; up until this legislation candidates were chosen at conventions.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members W". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1906) Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 824, 829-834, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 805.

The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Wednesday, January 18, 1928, page 1.

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