Background
Woods, Thomas Hall was born on March 17, 1836 in in Arkansas (then a ty.). Son of Review Harvey and Cecelia Woods.
Woods, Thomas Hall was born on March 17, 1836 in in Arkansas (then a ty.). Son of Review Harvey and Cecelia Woods.
Student Williams College, 1856, 57. (Doctor of Laws, University of Mississippi).
Admitted to bar, 1859. Member Secession Convention, 1861. Captain in C.S.A., 1861-1865.
District attorney, 3d District of Mississippi, 1865-1875. Was member Mississippi House of Representatives. Declined office of United State Attorneys, Southern District of Mississippi, 1888.
Chief justice Supreme Court of the Mississippi, 1889-1900. Resigned and declined reappointment. Division counsel for the Q.&C. system of railroads.
Retired. Home: Meridian, Miss.
Member Secession Conv. Member Miss.
Married Judith Jones, October 1863.