Frank B. Wood was the Iowa State Senator from the 42nd District. The activities director and assistant principal at North Scott High School in Eldridge. Wood served in the Iowa Senate 2005 – 2009.
Wood served on several committees in the Iowa Senate - the Appropriations committee; the Education committee; the Human Resources committee; the Natural Resources and Environment committee; and the State Government committee. He was chair of the Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
Wood was elected in 2004 with 15,500 votes (51%), defeating Republican opponent Bryan J. Sievers. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in the Iowa Senate elections, 2008. Wood previously served as mayor of Eldridge.
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“When I was your age I went to bed right after supper. Sometimes I went to bed before supper. Sometimes I went without supper and didn’t go to bed at all.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to his son Frank (Zeppo Marx)
“He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke will be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholar’s pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)