Ernest E. Wood
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Ernest Edward Wood was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from Missouri
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Born in Chico, California
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, Wood attended the public schools and was graduated from the Stockton (California) High School in 1892. He was appointed as a cadet to the United States Military Academy
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 at West Point in 1893 and remained two years. After studying law, Wood was admitted to the bar
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 in 1898 and commenced practice in St. Louis, Missouri
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Wood presented his credentials as a Democrat
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ic Member-elect to the Fifty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1905 to June 23, 1906, when he was succeeded by Harry M. Coudrey
Harry M. Coudrey
Harry Marcy Coudrey was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Brunswick, Missouri, Coudrey moved with his parents to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1878....

, who contested his election.

Wood moved to Los Angeles, California
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 in 1907 and resumed the practice of law. He died in Los Angeles on January 10, 1952 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
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