Urey Woodson

Urey Woodson (August 16, 1859 - August 7, 1939) was a Kentucky Democrat and a newspaper editor and publisher.^[1]

Urey Woodson
Born	(1859-08-16)August 16, 1859 Madisonville, Kentucky
Died	August 7, 1939(1939-08-07) (aged 79) Owensboro, Kentucky
Occupation	Newspaper editor

Urey Woodson, Norman Edward Mack, and Robert Crain at the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore

Biography

He was the Kentucky railroad commissioner from 1891 to 1895. He was a member of Democratic National Committee from Kentucky from 1896 to 1912, from 1916 to 1918, and from 1924 to 1928. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Kentucky in 1932. A Presbyterian, he died on August 7, 1939, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Owensboro, Kentucky.^[2][3]

External links

• Urey Woodson from the Library of Congress at Flickr Commons