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{{Officeholder
|name=William B. Woods
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]<br/>(later) [[Republican]]
|spouse=
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]
|terms=December 21, 1880 – May 14, 1887
|preceded=[[William Strong]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Lucius Q.C. Lamar II]]
}}
{{Officeholder/mayor
|number=
|city=Newark, Ohio
|terms=1856-58
|preceded=Joshua Mathiot
|former=y
|succeeded=Gibson Atherton
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=Union
|branch=[[U.S. Army]]
|rank=Brevet major general
|battles=[[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]].<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|work=law.jrank|title=William Burnham Woods|format=HTML|language=English|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/11385/Woods-William-Burnham.html}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="jrank"/>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|waite=y}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Woods, William B.}}
|name=William B. Woods
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]<br/>(later) [[Republican]]
|spouse=
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]
|terms=December 21, 1880 – May 14, 1887
|preceded=[[William Strong]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Lucius Q.C. Lamar II]]
}}
{{Officeholder/mayor
|number=
|city=Newark, Ohio
|terms=1856-58
|preceded=Joshua Mathiot
|former=y
|succeeded=Gibson Atherton
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=Union
|branch=[[U.S. Army]]
|rank=Brevet major general
|battles=[[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]].<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|work=law.jrank|title=William Burnham Woods|format=HTML|language=English|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/11385/Woods-William-Burnham.html}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="jrank"/>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|waite=y}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Woods, William B.}}