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3 unusual facts about Samuel D. Woods


Samuel D. Woods

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Woods was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.


Arthur Addison

A son Walter C. Addison, a champion rifle shooter of Orroroo, married Gertrude Madeleine Woods (19 Oct 1872 – ), daughter of E. J. Woods, on 8 May 1900.

Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.

This was a thriller, but Woods spent the next four years making comedies and musical films (including three with popular singer Keith Falkner which represented Falkner's entire screen output) before starting also to take on crime films, starting with The Dark Stairway, made in 1937 and released in early 1938.

Many of his films involved collaborations with producer Irving Asher, cinematographer Basil Emmott and screenwriter Brock Williams, while another frequent association was with actress Chili Bouchier.

Charles G. DeWitt

On March 22, 1831, he was appointed by Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham as one of three Commissioners of Insolvency for the Southern District of New York.

Consolidated P-30

When the Detroit Aircraft Corporation failed, the chief designer of the YP-24, Robert J. Woods was hired by Consolidated Aircraft.

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

Edmond Butler

During 1869, while assigned to guard the Fort WallaceDenver stage route, Butler volunteered to join an expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Woods against the Pawnees.

Frank Woods

Frank P. Woods (1868–1944), member of the United States House of Representatives

Frank E. Woods (1860–1939), screenwriter and one of the 36 founders of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Gertrude Emerson Sen

She was the daughter of Alfred Emerson, Sr., and the granddaughter of Deborah Hall, the wife of Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury (1829-31) under US President Andrew Jackson.

Harry McGregor

Harry M. Woods (Henry MacGregor Woods, 1896–1970), Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist

James B. Woods

He was a business partner with his brother-in-law J. Shannon Clift in a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's.

James P. Woods

Woods was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of Carter Glass.

He was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from February 25, 1919, to March 3, 1923.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

Johann Reichhart

He cooperated with Allied chief executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods in the preparations for further executions of those found guilty and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.

John H. Brinton

Brinton succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross (who was featured in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic), in the chair of surgery at Jefferson College, and also served as the chairman of the Mütter Museum Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Louis E. Woods

In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

Mail privileges of Guantanamo Bay detainees

According to the United Press International an unnamed military official attributed the change in policy to the recent appointment of the new camp commandant Rear Admiral David B. Woods.

Max Neal

According to a June 24, 1922 article in The New York Times titled "Woods Back with 40 Foreign Plays", producers Albert H. Woods and Charles B. Dillingham traveled to Europe to collect plays to re-produce in the States, of which Parquette No. 6 by Max Neal and Hans Gerbeck were one.

Peter Ihrie, Jr.

Ihrie was elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham.

Reginald Purdell

He tried his hand at film directing in 1937 with two comedies Don't Get Me Wrong, a Max Miller vehicle co-directed with Arthur B. Woods, and Patricia Gets Her Man.

Riddlewood, Pennsylvania

The name comes from famous racehorse owner Samuel D. Riddle, who owned the property before it was developed in the 1950s.

Samuel A. Smith

He resigned this position in 1832, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham.

Samuel D. Gruber

Gruber received his B.A. degree in Medieval Studies from Princeton University where he studied with Joseph Strayer, William Chester Jordan, Robert Bergman, David Coffin, Robert Hollander and other distinguished scholars.

Samuel D. Lockwood

Lockwood practiced law in Batavia for a year before relocating his practice to Sempronius, New York for about a year and a half.

Samuel D. Phillips

While serving as a private in Company H, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, he fought in an action against Indians at Muddy Creek in the Montana Territory on May 7, 1877.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.

Samuel D. Ratcliffe

He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor.

Samuel D. Riddle

Miss Riddle, member number 25516 of the Daughters of the American Revolution, married Mr. Homer Lee (of Mansfield, Ohio, who founded the Homer Lee Bank Note Company in New York City).

Samuel D. Roberts

Roberts is retired from General Motors where he worked for 30 years and was a member of the United Auto Workers union.

Samuel D. Thompson

He served on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority from 1994-1997 as director of communications and formerly as director of planning, analysis and government relations.

Samuel D. Wonders

He was elected president in 1949 after the death of president Richard B. Carter and served until 1955.

Samuel D. Wonders died in October 1980, a resident of Peterborough, New Hampshire.

From 1913-1929, Samuel D. Wonders worked as an industrial engineer for various companies in Ohio and Massachusetts, the best known of which was Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.

Samuel Purviance

Samuel D. Purviance (1774 – 1806), U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Samuel Warren

Samuel D. Warren (1852–1910), US attorney, co-author (with Brandeis) of the classic law review article The Right to Privacy (1890)

Thomas H. Woods

He also served as the first president of Citizens National Bank, also known as Citizens Savings Bank which was started in 1888.

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam

The Deputy Ambassadors and their periods of service in Vietnam are: U. Alexis Johnson (June 1964–September 1965), William J. Porter (September 1965–May 1967), Eugene M. Locke (May 1967–Jan 1968), Samuel D. Berger (March 1968–Mar 1972) Charles S. Whitehouse (March 1972–August 1973).

Viper of Melody

# "Midnight Stars and You" - 3:22 (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry Woods)

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

Wampus cat

A musical ensemble who recorded several tracks in 1937 and 1938, and consisting of six or seven string musicians including Oscar "Buddy" Woods, were billed as 'The Wampus Cats'.

When the Moon Comes over the Mountain

"When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain" is a popular song, published in 1931, and credited as written by Howard Johnson, Harry M. Woods, and Kate Smith.


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