Harry Hines Woodring

Harry Hines Woodring was an American politician. A Democrat, he was the 25th governor of Kansas and was a Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelts Cabinet. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936.

Woodring was born in 1890 in Elk City, Kansas, the son of farmer and Union Army soldier Hines Woodring. He was educated in city and county schools and at sixteen began work as a janitor in the First National Bank of Neodesha, Kansas. He attended Lebanon Business University for one year, which gained him employment as a bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the First National Bank in Elk City.

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