Guy D. Goff

Guy Despard Goff (* September 13, 1866 in Clarksburg, West Virginia; † January 7, 1933 in Thomasville, Georgia) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party.

Life

Guy D. Goff was born in 1866 as the son of the lawyer Nathan Goff, who later became a political career struck little and the state of West Virginia represented in both houses of Congress.

After the public school and the William and Mary College visit Goff graduated in 1888 at Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio); In 1891 he earned his law degree at Harvard. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and started to work as a lawyer in Boston. From 1893, he did so after his move to Wisconsin in Milwaukee. There was born in 1898 his daughter Louise, who was later also politically active from 1961 to 1963 sat for the State of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Public offices

In Milwaukee County Goff in 1895 was elected district attorney. In 1911 he rose after the appointment by U.S. President William Howard Taft to the Federal Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on; this he remained until 1915. Two years later he was appointed as assistant to the staff of the U.S. Attorney General. During the First World War, he also held the rank of Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps; yet he was from 1918 to 1919 worked in France and Germany.

In 1920 he received from U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the vocation to the top lawyers in the United States Shipping Board, a federal agency for the regulation of vessel traffic, of which he was later as a full member ( until 1921 ). In addition, he served 1920-1923 on several occasions as assistant to the Minister of Justice.

1923 Goff returned to his hometown of Clarksburg back, but the following year he was elected as a candidate of the Republican party for U.S. senator. His term began in Washington on March 4, 1925 and ended after six years; for re-election, he was not nominated. During his time in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments.

Guy Goff continued to live in Washington. During a winter holiday in Georgia he died in early 1933.