William B. Woods - Conservapedia

William B. Woods
Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court From: December 21, 1880 – May 14, 1887
Nominator	Rutherford B. Hayes
Predecessor	William Strong
Successor	Lucius Q.C. Lamar II
Former Mayor of Newark, Ohio From: 1856-58
Predecessor	Joshua Mathiot
Successor	Gibson Atherton
Information
Party	Democrat (later) Republican
Military Service
Allegiance	Union
Service/branch	U.S. Army
Rank	Brevet major general
Battles/wars	Civil War

William Burnham Woods (August 3, 1824 – May 14, 1887) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served in the Civil War as a commander - notably leading William T. Sherman's troops in Sherman's March through Georgia.^[1] On the Court he took a narrow view of federal powers and the 14th Amendment - at one point striking down a federal law designed to protect African Americans from the Ku Klux Klan.^[1]

References

The U.S. Supreme Court

Chief Justice Morrison Waite's Court (1874–1888)

1874–1877	Nathan Clifford \| Noah H. Swayne \| Samuel F. Miller \| David Davis \| Stephen Johnson Field \| William Strong \| Joseph P. Bradley \| Ward Hunt
1877–1880	Nathan Clifford \| Noah H. Swayne \| Samuel F. Miller \| Stephen Johnson Field \| William Strong \| Joseph P. Bradley \| Ward Hunt \| John Harlan I
1881	Nathan Clifford \| Samuel F. Miller \| Stephen Johnson Field \| Joseph P. Bradley \| Ward Hunt \| John Harlan I \| William B. Woods \| Stanley Matthews
1882–1887	Samuel F. Miller \| Stephen Johnson Field \| Joseph P. Bradley \| John Harlan I \| William B. Woods \| Stanley Matthews \| Horace Gray \| Samuel Blatchford
1888	Samuel F. Miller \| Stephen Johnson Field \| Joseph P. Bradley \| John Harlan I \| Stanley Matthews \| Horace Gray \| Samuel Blatchford \| Lucius Q.C. Lamar II