Carte Goodwin

Carte Patrick Goodwin ( born February 27, 1974 in Mount Alto, Jackson County, West Virginia) is an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party). He held from 20 July to 15 November 2010 the state of West Virginia in the U.S. Senate and was in this period, its youngest member. Goodwin was appointed by Governor Joe Manchin to succeed the late Robert Byrd; Manchins after winning the election on November 2, 2010 joined these two weeks later at Goodwins succession.

Life

Carte Goodwin grew up on the Ohio border in a rural area of West Virginia. He made his 1992 high school graduation in Ripley and graduated in 1996 magna cum laude at Marietta College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Thereafter he attended until 1999, the Law School of Emory University in Atlanta. After graduating, he worked as a legal assistant ( Law Clerk ) Robert Bruce King, a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the fourth circuit U.S. court, works. In 2000, he joined the family-owned law firm Goodwin & Goodwin, for whom he worked until 2005.

Goodwin is married and has one son. His wife works as a campaign director at the state level for the second senator from West Virginia, Jay Rockefeller. His uncle Joseph Robert Goodwin is Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia; his late father Stephen Goodwin stood before the governing body of the West Virginia University.

Career in public service

During the first term of Governor Joe Manchin between 2005 and 2009 Carte Goodwin was as chief legal advisor to the bar, before he returned to the office of his family. Short term, he served as Chairman of the State Inspectorate for school buildings (West Virginia School Building Authority). In June 2009, he was appointed by Governor Manchin with the chairmanship of an independent commission to decide on the need for reform of the judicial system in West Virginia.

After the death of Robert Byrd, the longest reigning member of the Senate in the history of Congress, 28 June 2010 Joe Manchin appointed his former legal adviser to his successor. Goodwin stated that he will not apply for re-election and vacate his seat as soon as a new senator is elected. Political observers saw him as a placeholder for Manchin himself, which was expected that he would compete in the by-election on November 2, 2010. This was confirmed a short time later when the governor announced his official candidacy. Manchin won both the intra-party primary and the actual election against Republican John Raese and was sworn in on 15 November 2010 as Goodwin's successor.