Godfrey G. Goodwin

Godfrey Goodwin

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 10th district
In office March 4, 1925 – February 16, 1933
Preceded by	Thomas D. Schall
Succeeded by	District Abolished
Personal details
Born	(1873-01-11)January 11, 1873 St. Peter, Minnesota
Died	February 16, 1933(1933-02-16) (aged 60) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Geneva Edwina Josephina Gouldberg
Residence	Isanti County, Minnesota
Alma mater	University of Minnesota Law School
Profession	attorney

Godfrey Gummer Goodwin (January 11, 1873 – February 16, 1933) was a Representative from Minnesota.

Early life

He was born Alfred Gustafson near St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota, to a single mother, Cecilia Carlson (née Sissa Carlsdotter). They moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882, where he took the name Godfrey Gummer Goodwin. He attended public schools and graduated from the faculty of law at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Minnesota.

He married Geneva Edwina Josephina Gouldberg June 5, 1905. He served as president of the Board of Education in Cambridge, Minnesota from 1914 to 1917.

Political career

He was prosecuting attorney of Isanti County from 1898 to 1907. He was elected to the position again in November 1913, and served until February 15, 1925, when he resigned as he had been elected to Congress.

He was elected as a Republican to the 69th, 70th, 71st, and 72nd congresses, serving from March 4, 1925, to February 16, 1933. After his congressional district was eliminated, he failed to receive nomination to the at-large Minnesota delegation in 1932. He plunged to his death from a window of the Hotel Driscoll in Washington, D.C., on February 16, 1933, only two weeks before the end of his final term. It is not known whether Goodwin intended to commit suicide or if the fall was an accident. He is interred in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

External links

Goodwin, Godfrey Gummer at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Thomas D. Schall	U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 10th congressional district 1925 – 1933	Succeeded by district abolished

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota

Districts 1–8 (active)

1st district	Territorial Delegate, 1849–1858 Sibley Rice Kingsbury 1863–1933 Windom Wilkinson Dunnell While T. Wilson Dunnell Harries Tawney Anderson Furlow Christgau 1935–present Andresen Quie Erdahl Penny Gutknecht Walz

2nd district	1863–1933 Donnelly E.M. Wilson Averill Strait Poehler Strait Wakefield Lind McCleary Hammond Ellsworth Clague 1935–present Ryan O'Hara Nelsen Hagedorn Weber Minge Kennedy Kline

3rd district	1873–1933 Averill King Stewart Washburn Strait MacDonald D. Hall O. Hall Heatwole Davis Andresen 1935–present Lundeen Teigan Alexander Gale Gallagher MacKinnon Wier MacGregor Frenzel Ramstad Paulsen

4th district	1883–1933 Washburn Gilfillan Rice Snider Castle Kiefer Stevens Van Dyke Keller Maas 1935–present Maas Starkey Devitt McCarthy Karth Vento McCollum

5th district	1883–1933 Nelson Comstock Halvorson Fletcher Lind Fletcher Nye Smith Lundeen Newton W. Nolan 1935–present Christianson D. Johnson Youngdahl Judd Fraser Sabo Ellison

6th district	1893–1933 Baldwin Towne Morris Buckman Lindbergh H. Knutson 1935–present H. Knutson Marshall Olson Zwach R. Nolan Weber Sikorski Grams Luther Kennedy Bachmann Emmer

7th district	1893–1933 Boen Eddy Volstead O. Kvale P. Kvale 1935–present P. Kvale Andersen Langen Bergland Stangeland Peterson

8th district	1903–1933 Bede Miller Carss Larson Carss Pittenger 1935–present Pittenger Bernard Pittenger Blatnik Oberstar Cravaack R. Nolan

Districts 9–10 and Statewide General Ticket (obsolete)

9th district	1903–33 Steenerson Wefald Selvig 1935–63 Buckler Hagen C. Knutson Langen

10th district	1915–33 Schall Goodwin

General Ticket	1858–63 Cavanaugh Phelps Windom Aldrich 1913–15 Manahan 1933–35 Arens Chase Christianson Hoidale Johnson H. Knutson P. Kvale Lundeen Shoemaker

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 39178365 LCCN: no2008027658 US Congress: G000299

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