Elijah Woods (politician)

Elijah Woods was a politician from Belmont County, Ohio who was a delegate to the convention that drafted the first constitution of the U.S. State of Ohio in 1802 and served in the Ohio House of Representatives soon after statehood.

Elijah Woods was born in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1778. He travelled with his uncle Archibald Woods to the Ohio River Valley in 1898.

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