Reuben Wood
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Commons category Reuben Wood (1792/1793Template:Spaced ndashOctober 1, 1864) was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He served as the 21st governor of Ohio.
Biography
Wood was born near Middletown, Vermont, in either 1792 or 1793. While living with an uncle in Canada after his father died, Wood was conscripted into the Canadian Army at the outset of the War of 1812, but escaped across Lake Ontario and briefly served in the Vermont militia.<ref name="REUBEN WOOD">Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Wood moved to Cleveland, OhioTemplate:Spaced ndashthen a tiny village of 600 residentsTemplate:Spaced ndashin 1818 with his wife and infant daughter. He reputedly arrived with only $1.25 left to his name to work as a lawyer. He served in the Ohio State Senate from 1825 to 1830. In 1830, he was elected President Judge of the third judicial circuit.<ref name=westhist>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name=supreme/> He served on the Common Pleas Court bench from 1830 to 1833.<ref name="REUBEN WOOD"/>
Wood was elected in 1833 to the Ohio Supreme Court, and served two seven-year terms from 1833 to 1847.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was defeated in a bid for a third term by a Whig candidate. He took office in late 1850 as governor. His first term was cut short by the implementation of a new state constitution, and he was re-elected in late 1851, re-inaugurated in early 1852. He resigned on July 13, 1853, to take a position as the American consul in Valparaíso, Chile. He remained there until 1855, when he retired to Cleveland.
Wood married Mary Rice, of Clarendon, Vermont, in 1816 or 1817. They had two daughters.<ref name=supreme>Template:Cite web</ref>
Wood was known as The tall chief of the Cuyahogas,<ref name=upton>Template:Cite book</ref> or Cuyahoga Chief,<ref name=westhist/> or Old Cuyahoga Chief,<ref name=clecuy/> or Old Chief of the Cuyahogas.<ref name=supreme/>
Death
Wood died at his farm, Evergreen Place, eight miles west of Cleveland, on October 1, 1864, from bilious colic.<ref name=clecuy>Template:Cite book</ref> He was initially interred on the farm, and was later reburied at Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland.<ref name=supreme/>Template:Sfn
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- 1790s births
- 1864 deaths
- Democratic Party governors of Ohio
- Democratic Party Ohio state senators
- Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio
- American militiamen in the War of 1812
- Ohio state court judges
- 19th-century American diplomats
- People from Middletown Springs, Vermont
- Consuls for the United States
- Burials at Woodland Cemetery (Cleveland)
- 19th-century Ohio state court judges
- 19th-century members of the Ohio General Assembly