List of United States Political Families (W) - The Woodsons

The Woodsons

• Samuel H. Woodson (1777–1827), U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1821-1823, Kentucky State Representative 1825-1826. First cousin of Silas Woodson.
• Silas Woodson (1819-1896), Kentucky State Representative 1842 1853-1855, delegate to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention 1849, Missouri Secretary of State 1860-1870, Governor of Missouri 1873-1875, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1876, Circuit Court Judge in Missouri 1881-1896. First cousin of Samuel H. Woodson.
  • Tucker Woodson (1804-1874), Kentucky State Representative, Kentucky State Senator, Judge of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Son of Samuel H. Woodson.
  • David M. Woodson (1806-1877), Kentucky State Representative 1833, delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention 1847, Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court 1848, Circuit Court Judge in Illinois, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1868. Son of Samuel H. Woodson.
  • Samuel H. Woodson (1815–1881), Missouri State Representative 1853-1854, delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention 1855, U.S. Representative from Missouri 1857-1861, Judge in Missouri 1875-1881. Son of Samuel H. Woodson.
    • Daniel Woodson (1824-1894), Secretary of the Kansas Territory 1854-1857, Governor of the Kansas Territory 1855, 1855, 1856, 1856, 1857. Third cousin twice removed of Samuel H. Woodson and Silas Woodson.
    • John M. Woodson, delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention 1862, Illinois State Senator 1867-1869. Son of David M. Woodson.
    • John Archibald Woodson, Sheriff of Meagher County, Montana; member of the Montana Legislature. Third cousin twice removed of Samuel H. Woodson and Silas Woodson.
      • J. A. Woodson (1848-1908), Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas 1895-1900. Third cousin three times removed of Samuel H. Woodson and Silas Woodson.
      • Urey Woodson (1859-1939), Democratic National Committeeman 1896-1912 1916-1918 1924-1928, Secretary of the Democratic National Committee 1904-1912, Secretary of the Democratic National Convention 1912, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1932. Third cousin three times removed of Samuel H. Woodson and Silas Woodson.

NOTE: Samuel H. Woodson, Silas Woodson, Daniel Woodson and James Archibald Woodson were also third cousins once removed of Missouri Governor Frederick Bates, U.S. Congressional Delegate James Woodson Bates and U.S. Attorney General Edward Bates.