Angier Goodwin

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Angier Louis Goodwin
Paul 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
[1][2][3]

Angier Louis Goodwin (January 30, 1881 – June 20, 1975) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.

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

He became 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.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1929 to 1941, and served as President of the Massachusetts Senate in his last year. He was chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Participation in New York World's Fair, in 1939 and 1940, and chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Administration and Finance in 1942. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955).

He failed reelection in

1954
. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Tax Appeals from 1955 to 1960.

See also

References

  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
Arthur D. Healey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 8th congressional district

January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955
Succeeded by
Torbert H. Macdonald