Word: woodford
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General Stewart L. Woodford, LL.D., D.C.L., President of the National Federation of Hughes Clubs, spoke in the Union last night on Governor Hughes as a presidential candidate...
...General Woodford said that every patriotic and wise man in considering a candidate for any great office should ask first, "Is he fit?" and second, "Is he available?" In answer to the first of these questions General Woodford said that he had known Gov. Hughes since the latter graduated from college, and that he had at once recognized in him a genius for work. He distinguished himself as counsel for the commission which was investigating the gas system of New York, and in 1905-06 by his honesty and courage procured the punishment of the guilty officers of the great...
...availability, his ability to win votes, General Woodford said, everyone of the 15,000,000 policy holders of the insurance companies of America would gratefully cast his ballot for Hughes, and he is the only candidate who can certainly carry the 39 electoral votes of New York so necessary to Republican success...
General Stewart L. Woodford, LL.D., D.C.L., ex-minister to Spain and President of the National Federation of Hughes Clubs, will address the Harvard Hughes Club at 8 o'clock this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union on "Governor Hughes and the Political Situation...
...many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member...