1. Cyrus E Woods was an American attorney, diplomat and politician.
10 Facts About Cyrus Woods
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Cyrus Woods later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a law degree in 1889.
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On January 18,1893, Cyrus Woods married the former Mary Todd Marchand, a great-granddaughter of James Todd, former state Attorney General.
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In 1900, Cyrus Woods made his first bid for political office, successfully contesting the Westmoreland County-based 39th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
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Cyrus Woods served in the Senate for two terms, from 1901 to 1907.
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Cyrus Woods received his first diplomatic appointment in 1912, when President William Howard Taft named him the United States' Envoy to Portugal, with the official title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, as the United States had not yet elevated the post to ambassador status.
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Cyrus Woods would serve six years in the post, before resigning in 1921 to take-up the post of Ambassador to Spain.
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In 1929, Governor John Fisher, with whom Cyrus Woods had served in the State Senate, appointed him Pennsylvania Attorney General.
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Cyrus Woods served in the post, his final political or diplomatic appointment, for eighteen months.
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Cyrus Woods died December 8,1938, in Philadelphia, where he had gone for medical treatment.