O.C. Woolley was a politician which is most notable for his tenure as the mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana

Jeffersonville, Indiana

Jeffersonville is a city in Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River. Locally, the city is often referred to by the abbreviated name Jeff. It is directly across the Ohio River to the north of Louisville, Kentucky along I-65. The population was 44,953 at the 2010 census...

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Biography

Mr. Woolley was born in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 in 1808 and he would live for the majority of his early life until 1841. While in New York he was a member of Tammany Hall

Tammany Hall

Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...

 from 1829 until his departure and participated with the Locofocos

Locofocos

The Locofocos were a radical faction of the Democratic Party that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s.  The faction was originally named the Equal Rights Party, and was created in New York City as a protest against that city’s regular Democratic organization .  It contained a mixture of...

 branch of the Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

. He left New York upon the demise of the locofocos. He came to Jeffersonville in 1841 with his brother Robert Woolley. In 1861 he was elected as mayor of Jeffersonville and served until 1865.

O.C. Woolley died visiting his brother in Austin, Indiana

Austin, Indiana

Austin is a city in Jennings Township, Scott County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,295 at the 2010 census. Austin became Indiana's newest city on January 1, 2008.-Geography:Austin is located at ....

in 1895 at the age of 87.