Isaac Goodnight

Isaac Herschel Goodnight (* January 31, 1849 in Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky; † July 24, 1901 in Franklin, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1895 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Goodnight attended the public schools of his home. In 1870 he moved to Franklin. Then he studied until 1872 at Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee). After a subsequent law studies at this University and his 1873 was admitted to the bar he began in Franklin to work in his new profession. Politically, Goodnight member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1877 and 1878 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In 1891 he chaired the regional Democratic Party congress in Louisville.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Goodnight was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded W. Godfrey Hunter took on 4 March 1889 by the Republican Party, he had beaten at the polls. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 three legislative periods. In 1894 Goodnight opted not to run again. His mandate fell again to Godfrey Hunter. Since 1897 until his death on July 24, 1901 Isaac Goodnight acted as a judge in the Seventh Judicial District of Kentucky.

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