John Goode

John Goode, Jr. ( born May 27 in 1829 Bedford County, Virginia; † July 14, 1909 in Norfolk, Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party) of the state of Virginia in Konföderiertenkongress and in the U.S. House of Representatives represented. In addition, he served from 1885 to 1886 as United States Solicitor General.

Politicians in Virginia

Goode received his college degree in 1848 in Emory and then studied in the Lexington Law. In 1851 he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Liberty. In 1852 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Virginia; In 1861 he participated at the State Convention, which decided to Virginia's secession from the United States.

In the Confederacy, he remained active in politics and was elected to the House of Representatives of the first and the second Konföderiertenkongresses. His term of office began on 22 February 1862, ended with the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865. During the parliamentary breaks he was in the Confederate Army worked as a volunteer on the staff of Major General Jubal A. Early.

Change to Washington

After the war, Goode again worked as a lawyer and was 1866-1867 again to the Parliament of Virginia. After a move to Norfolk in 1887 he moved his practice to Washington; another term in the House of Representatives joined them. Finally, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained on 6 December 1875 to March 3, 1881. During this period he was also Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor.

In the years 1868 and 1872 Goode was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention; He also represented his party in 1884 as an elector in the Electoral College, as he had done before in 1852 and 1856. In May 1885, U.S. President Grover Cleveland appointed him then to the Office of the Solicitor General, the supreme Agent of the Federal Government. He held this post until August 1886, before him George A. Jenks replaced. During his tenure he visited British Columbia for an extradition case.

In old age finally Goode was still President of the Bar Association of Virginia and was from 1901 to 1902 the Constitutional Convention of the State of before.