John C. Wood

John Clinton 'Jack' Wood (1918 - August 20, 1994) was the Mayor of Fairfax from 1953 to 1964.

Wood was born in New York and moved to the Washington area in 1936, the same year that he entered the University of Virginia.

Following his graduation from law school, Wood entered private practice in 1944. Wood had learned the same year that he had entered university that he was suffering from a hereditary ailment that would eventually render him totally blind in 1950.

Political Career
Wood was first elected to the Fairfax Town Council on June 10, 1952. In 1953, Councilman Wood was selected by the other members of the Fairfax Town Council to succeed Mayor Robert B. Walker, who resigned the office because of ill health. He was elected in his own right on June 8, 1954.

During his term as mayor, Wood oversaw purchase of a site in Loudoun County on the Goose Creek and the building of the Goose Creek Water Treatment Plant. He also orchestrated the creation of what is now George Mason University, and the incorporation of the City of Fairfax in 1961.