William B. Woods

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William B. Woods
Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court From: December 21, 1880 – May 14, 1887
Nominator	Rutherford B. Hayes
Predecessor	William Strong
Successor	Lucius Q.C. Lamar II
Former Mayor of Newark, Ohio From: 1856-58
Predecessor	Joshua Mathiot
Successor	Gibson Atherton
Information
Party	Democrat (later) Republican
Military Service
Allegiance	Union
Service/branch	U.S. Army
Rank	Brevet major general
Battles/wars	Civil War

William Burnham Woods (August 3, 1824 – May 14, 1887) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served in the Civil War as a commander - notably leading William T. Sherman's troops in Sherman's March through Georgia.^[1] On the Court he took a narrow view of federal powers and the 14th Amendment - at one point striking down a federal law designed to protect African Americans from the Ku Klux Klan.^[1]

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} William Burnham Woods (English) (HTML). law.jrank.

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