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 GOVERNOR GEORGE L. WOODS

September 12, 1866—September 14, 1870

George L. Woods was elected Governor of Oregon in June, 1866, and his administration necessarily met the new questions arising for settlement from the Civil Wai

which had just closed. Governor Woods was bom in Boone County, Missouri, on July 30, 1832, and when fifteen years of age came to Oregon with his parents. He was admitted to the bar in 1858. Woods was also appointed Governor of Utah in 1871, serving four years. He afterward resided in California for ten years, returning to Oregon in 1885, where his death occurred on January 1 4,

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Political Hostility to the Negro. The Fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, which conferred the privileges of citizenship on the recently freed negroes was ratified by the legislature which convened at the beginning of Governor Woods' administration. Much bitterness was manifested regarding this question, as well as toward others which were presented for settlement. At the session of 1868, party differences were so pronounced that the general appropriation bill was not introduced until the day on which the session should have constitutionally adjourned; and to prevent other legislation to which they were radically opposed, nearly all the Republican members of the house resigned