Samuel Davis Woods was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from California

California

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Born in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee

Mount Pleasant is a city in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. Birthplace of confederate Sam R. Watkins and formerly titled The Phosphate Capital of the World. The population was 4,491 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

, Woods moved with his parents to Stockton, California

Stockton, California

Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...

, in February 1850.
He attended the public schools.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the California bar in April 1875 and engaged in practice in Stockton and in the city and county of San Francisco.

Woods was elected as a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 to the Fifty-sixth

56th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:- Leadership :- Senate :* President: Garret Hobart , until November 21, 1899 , vacant thereafter.* President pro tempore: William P. Frye * Democratic Caucus Chairman: James K. Jones...

 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries

Marion De Vries

Marion De Vries was a United States Representative from California. He was born on a ranch near Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, California. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the San Joaquin Valley College, Woodbridge, California in 1886 and from the law department of the...

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He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh

57th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:*Democratic: 151*Republican: 200 *Populist: 5*Silver : 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Theodore Roosevelt , until September 14, 1901, vacant thereafter....

 Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth

58th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :* Republican : 209 * Democratic : 176* Silver Republican : 1TOTAL members: 386-Senate:* President: Vacant* President pro tempore: William P. Frye -Members:...

 Congress.
He resumed the practice of law in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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, and died there December 24, 1915.
He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, California.

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