Stephen Wray Wood (born October 6, 1948) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly[1] representing the state's sixty-first House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

Before election to the NC House he served as professor of history and education and assistant academic dean at John Wesley College, High Point, North Carolina, (1975-1981).

Wood developed a reputation as a fiscal and social conservative sponsoring legislation to reduce the size and scope of government, lower tax burdens, and promote pro-life issues.

In 1992, Governor Jim Martin presented Wood the Order of the Longleaf Pine, the highest civilian award given by the state of North Carolina.

Recording credits include "Love and Devotion", with the Barney Pierce Family; "Travelin'Troubadour" (1975); "Titusoverture" (QCA Records/1978); "Sunday Brought The Cure"(TobytowneRecords,2013).

Acting/theater/performing experience includes an 'extra' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads (May 2007); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (September 2007); an 'extra' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising (November 2007); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, written by Frank Levering, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, (August 2008); "Tom Dooley," Wilkes Playmakers (2009); "Moonshine and Thunder: The Junior Johnson Story," Wilkes Playmakers, (2009); extra in "The Fifth Quarter, (2010); "Dearly Beloved", (Wiley), 2013, Twin City Stage, WS, NC.

Research and writing include book reviews and articles in "Quaker Life", "Piedmont Christian News," Voice of Evangelical Methodism, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, "21 Days Devotional", North Carolina Yearly Meeting, September 25, 2013), and biographical entries in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (Dr. James Wagner Davis and Rev.

"Group Backing Private School Vouchers Blasts NC Governors", Winston-Salem Journal, "Amendment Lets Judges Take Positions", "Under the Dome", The News and Observer, Tuesday, July 18, 1995, 3A.