User:Ggillette/George H. Woodson

'"George H. Woodson''' was born in Virginia in 1866 and dies in Iowa in 1933.

Life and career
Woodson graduated from Petersburg College in 1890. He finished at Howard University's law school in Washington, D.C., in 1896. Woodson came to Iowa with the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry. He served in the military as an NCO from 1890-1893. He later became deputy director of customs in 1924, commissioner of the Virgin Islands in 1928 and a representative of the Virgin Islands to the Republican National Convention.

Also during this time he led the founding of the Iowa Negro Bar (Iowa National Bar Association) and the National Bar Association. He became first president and president emeritus of both as a hero of the Black legal community. Woodson was a prominent lawyer with offices in the coal-mining town Buxton and in Des Moines, Iowa. George Woodson died in 1933.