since Franklin B. Dyer's hiring in 1912 that someone outside of Boston Public Schools was given the job of superintendent. He took over the district while it was in the midst of the busing crisis - a period in which the district was under a federal court order to desegregate. In 1980, the school committee voted to remove Wood from office, with anti-busing members John J. McDonough, Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, and Gerald O'Leary voting for his ouster and John D. O'Bryant and Jean Sullivan McKeigue opposing. Personal life Wood married the former Margaret Byers, on March 22, 1952. They had three children, including the actor Frank Wood and the Governor of New Hampshire and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan. Wood died from stomach cancer at his home in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 2005. Publications Wood's best-known books are: 1958. Suburbia: Its People and Their Politics 1959. Metropolis against Itself. 1961. 1400 Governments; The Political Economy of the New York Metropolitan Region. With Vladimir V. Almendinger. 1972. The Necessary Majority: Middle America and the Urban Crisis 1993. Whatever Possessed the President? Academic Experts and Presidential Policy, 1960-88. 1995. Turnabout Time: Public Higher Education in the Commonwealth. With Richard A. Hogarty and Aundrea E. Kelley. References External links Professor, HUD chief Robert Wood dies. MIT April 6, 2005. An Inventory of His Personal Papers In the John F. Kennedy Library. |- |- 1923 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American politicians United States Army personnel of World War II American political scientists Cyberneticists Deaths from stomach cancer Harvard Kennedy School alumni Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority people Presidents of the University of Massachusetts system Scientists from St. Louis United States Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development Wesleyan University faculty Princeton University alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Boston Public Schools superintendents United States Army officers Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts 20th-century political scientists