Godfrey G. Goodwin

Godfrey Gummer Goodwin ( born January 11, 1873 in Saint Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota, † February 16, 1933 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1933 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1882, Godfrey Goodwin and his mother moved to Saint Paul. There he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1895 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1896 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Cambridge (Minnesota). Between 1898 and 1907, and again from 1913 to 1925 he was district attorney in Isanti County. Between 1914 and 1917 he was also chairman of the Education Committee of the Cambridge community.

Goodwin was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1924 he was appointed as their candidate in the tenth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1925, the successor of Thomas David Schall. After three re- elections he could remain until his death on February 16, 1933 in Congress. His last years in Congress were overshadowed by the global economic crisis. In 1932, Goodwin's tenth election district was dissolved. He was not nominated by his party for another district. However, he would have anyway to take no further term because he died before the expiration of his last term on March 3, 1933.