Harry Hines Woodring

Harry Hines Woodring was an American politician. A Democrat, he was the 25th governor of Kansas and the United States assistant secretary of war from 1933 to 1936. His most important role was Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cabinet from 1936 to 1940. After 1938, Roosevelt rejected isolationism regarding Europe; Woodring, who quietly opposed Roosevelt, was eventually removed.