biography
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Woods, William Burnham
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| lived:
| (1824–87)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Newark, Ohio, USA. He served the Union Army and fought in several major Civil War battles, earning the rank of brigadier-general. He was appointed a US circuit judge for Georgia (1869–80) until President Hayes named him to the US Supreme Court (1881–7). |
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