James Hewitt Wood (July 4, 1879 – May 10, 1951) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Shortly afterwards, he left for South Africa via New Orleans with 1,100 horses to be used for the Boer War.
He then returned to America, where he did engineering work for the lower Mississippi River levee.
There, he formed a partnership with a Colorado miner and went with him to Central America, where he alternated between constructing railroads and prospecting for gold in the mountains.
[1] In 1912, Wood was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing Fulton and Hamilton Counties.