Norman Wood (politician)

Norman Wood (January 24, 1891 – March 11, 1988) was an American politician who served more than 40 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1923 to 1965.

[1] Wood was born January 24, 1891, in Fulton Township, Lancaster County.

Republican powerbroker William Walton Griest was looking for someone to run for an open seat in the 1922 election and sent an underling to Fulton Township with instructions to bring "that Wood fellow" to meet him.

[2] Wood eventually rose to chairman of his party's caucus.

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