W. O. Woods | |
Order: | 27th |
Office: | Treasurer of the United States |
Term Start: | January 18, 1929 |
Term End: | May 31, 1933 |
Predecessor: | Harold Theodore Tate |
Successor: | William Alexander Julian |
President: | Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Birth Name: | Walter Orr Woods |
Birth Date: | 31 October 1873 |
Birth Place: | Concordia, Kansas, U.S. |
Death Place: | Carlinville, Illinois, U.S. |
Office1: | Register of the Treasury |
Term Start1: | October 1, 1927 |
Term End1: | January 17, 1929 |
Predecessor1: | Harley V. Speelman |
Successor1: | Edward E. Jones |
Signature: | Walter Orr Woods (Engraved Signature).jpg |
Walter Orr Woods (October 31, 1873 – June 7, 1951[1]) was United States Register of the Treasury from October 1, 1927, to January 17, 1929[2] and Treasurer of the United States from January 18, 1929, to May 31, 1933. Before becoming Treasurer, he was a member of the War Loan Board staff. As Treasurer he supervised the change from the large to the smaller sized U.S. currency now in use.