Homer R. Wood was a politician from Arizona who served in the

1st Arizona State Legislature The 1st Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted from February 14, 1912 (the day Arizona was admitted to the United States) to December 31, 1914, during the first ...

. Wood was originally from Michigan. He moved to Prescott, Arizona in 1891, and established a drug store. He was also active in the mining field, and was one of the people responsible for the development of the Hillside Mine. By the early 1900s, he and two partners had opened a mining investment firm, Wood, Dillon & Co. In 1910 he was one of six Democrats selected to run for the positions as delegates to the state's constitutional convention. In the general election Wood was one of the five Democrats, along with a lone Republican selected to represent Yavapai County at the convention. He was one of the signers of the

Constitution of Arizona The Constitution of the State of Arizona is the governing document and framework for the State of Arizona. The current constitution is the first and only adopted by the state of Arizona. History The Arizona Territory was authorized to hold a ...

. Along with

M. G. Cunniff Michael Glenn Cunniff (1875-1914) was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. He was the first president of the Arizona senate, a journalist, and an English professor at Harvard and the University of Wisconsin. ...

, he was one of the two Democrats elected in the October 1911 primary to run for the state Senate. Both Wood and Cunniff won in December's general election, to become the first state senators from Yavapai County. During the first legislature, Wood served on six senate committees: Finance; Judiciary; Mines and Mining; Appropriations; Constitutional Mandates; and State Accounting and Methods of Business. For over 50 years, starting in 1897, Wood was the official timekeeper for Prescott's " Frontier Days", billed as the "World's Oldest Rodeo". Wood died in his home in Prescott on June 17, 1952.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, H. R. Democratic Party Arizona state senators 1952 deaths People from Prescott, Arizona