John Z. Goodrich

John Zacheus Goodrich ( born September 27, 1804 in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † April 19, 1885 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Goodrich attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. He also was active in the craft. Goodrich was a member of the Whig party and sat in the years 1848 and 1849 in the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1850, Goodrich was in the seventh election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Julius Rockwell on March 4, 1851. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. Since 1853 he represented there as a successor of Barker Burnell the eleventh district of his state. His time as a congressman was shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In the spring of 1861, Goodrich was a member of a negotiating committee that sought to prevent the outbreak of the Civil War unsuccessfully in the federal capital, Washington. Between January and March 1861, he also held the office of Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. Between 1861 and 1865 led Goodrich, the customs authority in Boston. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on April 19, 1885 in Stockbridge, where he was also buried.