Walker Wood | |
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c. 1907 | |
30th Secretary of State of Mississippi | |
In office April 7, 1926 –January 1948 | |
Governor | Henry L. Whitfield Dennis Murphree Theodore G. Bilbo Martin Sennet Conner Hugh L. White Paul B. Johnson Sr. Thomas L. Bailey Fielding L. Wright |
Preceded by | Joseph Withers Power |
Succeeded by | Heber Austin Ladner |
Member of the MississippiHouseofRepresentatives from the Tate County district | |
In office January 1908 –January 1912 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Vicksburg,Mississippi | April 23,1874
Died | February 3,1957 82) Jackson,Mississippi | (aged
Political party | Democrat |
Walker Wood (April 23,1874 - February 3,1957) was an American journalist and politician from Mississippi. He was the 30th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1926 to 1948.
Walker Wood was born on April 23,1874,in Vicksburg,Mississippi. [1] He was the son of William Menefee Wood and Josephine (Kendrick) Wood. [1] He was educated in the public schools in the Vicksburg area. [1]
At the age of eighteen,he began a career in journalism. [1] He was in charge of the Oxford Eagle from 1892 until he purchased the Senatobia Democrat and started being the editor of that newspaper in 1899. [1] He edited the Winona Times until 1940. [2]
A Democrat,Wood was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives representing Tate County in 1907 for the 1908-1912 term. [1] On April 7,1926,he was appointed to the position of Secretary of State of Mississippi by Governor Whitfield after the death of Joseph Withers Power. [3] In 1935,he defeated former State Auditor Joe S. Price for re-election. [4] In 1945,he was the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. [5] He stopped being the Secretary of State of Mississippi in 1948. [6] He was the president of the Mississippi State Microfilm Department from 1950 until his retirement in December 1956. [2]
Wood died after a long illness on February 3,1957,in a hospital in Jackson,Mississippi. [2] He was survived by his wife and two daughters. [7]
Wood married Susie Garrott Meacham on February 19,1902. [1] They had at least three children,Olivia Elizabeth Wood,George Meacham Wood,and another daughter. [1] [7] Wood was a Methodist. [1]