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Woodward, Fred A

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1854, in Wilson county, N. C. He was elected from Wilson, N. C., to the fifty-third and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

WOODWARD, GEORGE WASHING- TON, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 26, 1809, in Bethany, Pa. In 1841 he was appointed president judge of the fourth judicial district, and held the office ten years. In 1852 he was elected judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, and held the position for nearly sixteen years. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a democrat.

He died May 10, 1875, in Rome, Italy.

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