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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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WOODS, Frank Plowman, a Representative from Iowa;
born near Sharon, Walworth County, Wis., December 11, 1868;
attended the public schools and the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, Ind.;
moved to Estherville, Emmett County, Iowa, in 1887 and worked in a newspaper office for two years;
engaged in the mortgage-loan business and private banking;
chairman of the Republican State central committee in 1906 and 1907;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1919);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918;
chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee 1913-1918;
resided in Altadena, Calif., until his death there April 25, 1944;
interment in Mountain View Cemetery.
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