Harry Hines Woodring

Harry Hines Woodring (May 31, 1887 – September 9, 1967) was an American politician. A Democrat, he was the 25th Governor of Kansas and the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936. His most important role was Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cabinet from 1936 to 1940. After 1938, Roosevelt rejected isolationism regarding Europe. Woodring quietly opposed Roosevelt and was eventually fired.

Harry Hines Woodring

Franklin D. Roosevelt

May 31, 1887
Elk City, Kansas, U.S.

September 9, 1967(1967-09-09) (aged 80)
Topeka, Kansas, U.S.

Democratic

Helen Coolidge

Lebanon Business University

Biography[edit]

Harry Hines Woodring was born in 1887^[1] in Elk City, Kansas, the son of farmer and Union Army soldier Hines Woodring. He was educated in city and county schools and at sixteen began work as a janitor. He attended Lebanon Business University in Lebanon, Indiana, for one year,^[2] which gained him employment as a bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the First National Bank in Elk City.

Death[edit]

Woodring died following a stroke in Topeka, Kansas, on September 9, 1967, at the age of 80. He is buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka.

List of members of the American Legion

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No Ordinary Time

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Bell, William Gardner (1992). . Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army. United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 70-12. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2010.

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