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Language
English
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Abstract
Woods was Chairman of the Committee on the Bill of Rights and Elections in the 1872 Constitutional Convention and played a
major role in the formation of the present state Constitution. These letters, mostly written by Woods to his wife, reveal
in detail the activities of the convention.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Samuel Woods Letters regarding Constitutional Convention (typescript
copies), A&M 1445, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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