Angier Goodwin

Angier Louis Goodwin
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 8th district
In office
January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955
Preceded byArthur Daniel Healey
Succeeded byTorbert Macdonald
Chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Administration and Finance
In office
1941–1942
Preceded byPatrick J. Moynihan
Succeeded byPaul W. Foster
President of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1941–1941
Preceded byJoseph R. Cotton
Succeeded byJarvis Hunt
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
from the 4th Middlesex district
In office
1929–1941
Preceded byAlvin E. Bliss
Succeeded bySumner G. Whittier
Mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts
In office
1921 – January 2, 1923
Preceded byCharles H. Adams
Succeeded byPaul H. Provandle
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 22nd Middlesex district
In office
1925–1928
Preceded byCharles H. Gilmore
Succeeded byMary Livermore Barrows
Personal details
BornJanuary 30, 1881
Fairfield, Maine
DiedJune 20, 1975 (aged 94)
Political partyRepublican
Alma materColby College
Harvard Law School
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Angier Louis Goodwin (January 30, 1881 – June 20, 1975) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.

Goodwin graduated from Colby College in 1902, and from Harvard Law School three years later. He was admitted to the Maine bar that same year and the Massachusetts bar in the next, and practiced law in Boston.

He became a member of the Melrose, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen in 1912, and served until 1914. Goodwin rejoined the board in 1916, and served four more years; he served as president in 1920. He was mayor of Melrose from 1921 to 1923.

Goodwin became a member of the Massachusetts State Guard and legal adviser to aid draft registrants during the First World War. He was a member of the Planning Board and chairman of the Board of Appeal in Melrose between 1923 and 1925.

He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1925 to 1928, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1929 to 1941, serving as Senate president in his last year. Goodwin was chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Participation in the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1940, and chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Administration and Finance in 1942.

Goodwin was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955). Defeated for re-election to Congress in 1954, he was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Tax Appeals from 1955 to 1960.

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References

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  1. ^ Howard, Richard T. (1933), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1933-1934, Boston, MA: Boston Review, p. 49
  2. ^ Howard, Richard T. (1927), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1927-1928, Boston, MA: Boston Review Publicity Service, p. 173
  3. ^ Howard, Richard T. (1929), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1929-1930, Boston, MA: Boston Review, p. 92
Political offices
Preceded by
Mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts
1921 – January 2, 1923
Succeeded by
Paul H. Provandle
Preceded by President of the Massachusetts Senate
1941
Succeeded by
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 8th congressional district

January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955
Succeeded by