Forrest Goodwin

Forrest Goodwin ( born June 14, 1862 in Skowhegan, Maine, † May 28 1913 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. In 1913, he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Forrest Goodwin attended the public schools of his home including the Skowhegan High School and Bloomfield Academy. Then he studied until 1887 at Colby College in Waterville. After a subsequent law degree from Boston University and his made ​​in 1889 admitted to the bar he began to work in 1891 Skohegan in his new profession.

Goodwin was a member of the Republican Party. In 1889, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. Between 1889 and 1891 he was employed by the President of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thomas Brackett Reed. From 1903 to 1905 Goodwin was a member of the Senate of Maine, which he was president in 1905.

In 1912 he was in the third electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1913 the successor of Samuel W. Gould of the Democratic Party. But Goodwin was able to spend just under a quarter in Congress. At this time the 17th Amendment was ratified on April 8, 1913, which prescribed the direct election of U.S. senators. Forrest Goodwin died on 28 May of the same year and was buried in Skowhegan.