Wells Goodykoontz

Wells Goodykoontz (* June 3, 1872 in Newbern, Pulaski County, Virginia; † March 2, 1944 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a private primary education Goodykoontz attended Oxford Academy in Floyd ( Virginia). After studying law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington and its made ​​in 1893 admitted to the bar he began in Williamson (West Virginia) to work in his new profession. Goodykoontz also went into the banking business.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1911 and 1912 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia; between 1914 and 1918 he was a member of the State Senate, whose president he became. In this capacity he took 1917-1918 deputy, the duties of the Lieutenant Governor true. At the same time he was president of the Bar Association of West Virginia. During the First World War Goodykoontz was chairman of the legal advisors Committee on the state of West Virginia.

In 1918 he was in the fifth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Cooper on March 4, 1919. After a re-election in 1920 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 two legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the introduction of the national women's suffrage and the prohibition law. In the elections of 1922 Goodykoontz defeated Democrat Thomas Jefferson Lilly. After his time in Congress, he again worked as a lawyer in Williamson and devoted himself to his private business in banking. Wells Goodykoontz died on March 2, 1944 in Cincinnati and was buried in Williamson.