Reuben Terrell Wood (August 7, 1884 – July 16, 1955) was a Democratic

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representing

Missouri's 6th congressional district Missouri's 6th congressional district takes in a large swath of land in northern Missouri, stretching across nearly the entire width of the state from Kansas to Illinois. Its largest voting population is centered in the northern portion of the ...

from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1941. Wood was born on a farm near

Springfield, Missouri Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which had an estimat ...

, apprenticed as a cigar maker and was president of the Missouri State Federation of Labor 1912-1932. He was chairman of the Committee on War Claims and lost re-election in 1940. He resumed his position as president of the Federation until his retirement in 1953. He is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Springfield.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Robert T. 1884 births 1955 deaths People from Greene County, Missouri Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri 20th-century American politicians