WOOD, FERNANDO
\wˈʊd], \wˈʊd], \w_ˈʊ_d]\
Sort: Oldest first
-
(1812-1881), represented New York in the U. S. Congress as a Democrat from 1841 to 1843. He was elected mayor of New York City from 1855 to 1858 and from 1861 to 1863. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he recommended that New York secede and become a free city. He again served in the U.S. Congress from 1863 to 1865. He was a great power in the politics of the city.
By John Franklin Jameson