John Travers Wood was an American physician and politician who served as a one-term congressman from northern Idaho from 1951 to 1953.

The 1950 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 82nd United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 7, 1950, while Maine held theirs on September 11. These elections occurred in the middle of President Harry Truman's second term.