Guy D. Goff

Guy Goff
United States Senator from West Virginia
In office March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1931
Preceded by	Davis Elkins
Succeeded by	Matthew M. Neely
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
In office 1911–1915
President	William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	E. A. Henning
Succeeded by	H. A. Sawyer
Personal details
Born	Guy Despard Goff (1866-09-13)September 13, 1866 Nathan Goff (father) Laura Ellen (Despard) Goff (mother)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1918–1919
Rank	Colonel
Unit	Judge Advocate General's Corps
Battles/wars	World War I

Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 – January 7, 1933) was an American lawyer and politician - who served as a

Goff was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as general counsel of the United States Shipping Board in 1920 and later became a member, serving until 1921; he was appointed an assistant to the Attorney General on several occasions from 1920 to 1923. He returned to Clarksburg in 1923 and was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1930.

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Seventy-first Congress). He resided in Washington, D.C. and died at his winter home in Thomasville, Georgia, in 1933, aged 66. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

Guy D. Goff was a son of

• United States Congress. "Guy D. Goff (id: G000254)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-07-02

External links

• The West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University houses the papers of Guy D. Goff within A&M 17 and A&M 622