James W. Good

James Good


50th United States Secretary of War
In office March 6, 1929 – November 18, 1929
President	Herbert Hoover
Preceded by	Dwight F. Davis
Succeeded by	Patrick J. Hurley
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 5th district
In office March 4, 1909 – June 15, 1921
Preceded by	Robert G. Cousins
Succeeded by	Cyrenus Cole
City Attorney of Cedar Rapids
In office 1906–1908
Preceded by	John M. Hughes^[1]
Succeeded by	John M. Redmond^[2]

Personal details
Born	James William Good (1866-09-24)September 24, 1866 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Died	November 18, 1929(1929-11-18) (aged 63) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Lucy Good
Children	2
Education	Coe College (BA) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (LLB)

James William Good (September 24, 1866 – November 18, 1929) was an American politician and lawyer from the state of

Republican Party

Biography

James William Good was born near

Indianapolis, Indiana

, the same year. He married Lucy Deacon on October 4, 1894. They had two sons, James William, Jr. and Robert Edmund Good.

In 1896, Good returned to Cedar Rapids, where he continued to practice law. Good served as the Cedar Rapids City Attorney from 1906 to 1908.

Good was a member of the

Chicago, Illinois, law firm, once Good's plan to reorganize the budgetary process was adopted.^[3] Good resigned on June 10, 1921.^[4] Republican Cyrenus Cole

of Cedar Rapids won a special election to fill his vacancy, and was sworn in August 1, 1921.

In 1928 Good worked to elect

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He died in Washington, D.C., on November 18, 1929, shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, at the beginning of the Great Depression. He was succeeded by the Under Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley.

References

^ Midland municipalities (League of Iowa municipalities, August 1904)
^ Midland municipalities : official publication ... v. 13-16 (1907-1909)
^ Editorial, "Public or Private Life," Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, 1921-01-06, at p. 4.
^ "Good Resigns House Seat," New York Times, 1921-06-10.

United States Congress. "James W. Good (id: G000275)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Robert G. Cousins	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 5th congressional district 1909–1921	Succeeded by Cyrenus Cole
Preceded by J. Swagar Sherley	Chair of the House Appropriations Committee 1919–1921	Succeeded by Charles Davis
Political offices
Preceded by Dwight F. Davis	United States Secretary of War 1929	Succeeded by Patrick J. Hurley

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa
1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum Finkenauer Hinson Miller-Meeks
2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack Miller-Meeks Hinson
3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young Axne Nunn
4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle LeCompte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King Feenstra
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston LeCompte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King
6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy
7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle
8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven
9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey
10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist
11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell
AL	Hastings Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

United States Secretaries of War and the Army

Department
of War
(1789–1947)

Secretaries of War	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall
Assistant Secretaries of War	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Robbins Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen
Under Secretaries of War	Patterson Royall Draper

Department
of the Army
(1947–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh Fanning Esper McCarthy Wormuth
Under Secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy McCarthy McPherson Camarillo

v t e Cabinet of President Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
Vice President	Charles Curtis (1929–1933)
Secretary of State	Frank B. Kellogg (1929) Henry L. Stimson (1929–1933)
Secretary of the Treasury	Andrew Mellon (1929–1932) Ogden L. Mills (1932–1933)
Secretary of War	James William Good (1929) Patrick J. Hurley (1929–1933)
Attorney General	William D. Mitchell (1929–1933)
Postmaster General	Walter Folger Brown (1929–1933)
Secretary of the Navy	Charles Francis Adams III (1929–1933)
Secretary of the Interior	Ray Lyman Wilbur (1929–1933)
Secretary of Agriculture	Arthur M. Hyde (1929–1933)
Secretary of Commerce	Robert P. Lamont (1929–1932) Roy D. Chapin (1932–1933)
Secretary of Labor	James J. Davis (1929–1930) William N. Doak (1930–1933)

Iowa's delegation(s) to the 61st–67th United States Congresses (ordered by seniority)

61st	Senate: ▌J. Dolliver (R) ▌A. Cummins (R) ▌L. Young (R)	House: ▌J. Hull (R) ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌W. Smith (R) ▌A. Dawson (R) ▌E. Hubbard (R) ▌C. Kennedy (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌W. Jamieson (D) ▌N. Kendall (R) ▌C. Pickett (R) ▌F. Woods (R)
62nd	Senate: ▌A. Cummins ▌L. Young ▌W. Kenyon	House: ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌W. Smith (R) ▌E. Hubbard (R) ▌C. Kennedy (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌N. Kendall (R) ▌C. Pickett (R) ▌F. Woods (R) ▌I. Pepper (D) ▌S. Prouty (R) ▌ H. Towner (R) ▌W. Green (R) ▌G. Scott (R)
63rd	Senate: ▌A. Cummins (R) ▌W. Kenyon (R)	House: ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌C. Kennedy (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌F. Woods (R) ▌I. Pepper (D) ▌S. Prouty (R) ▌ H. Towner (R) ▌W. Green (R) ▌G. Scott (R) ▌M. Connolly (D) ▌S. Kirkpatrick (D) ▌H. Vollmer (D)
64th	Senate: ▌A. Cummins (R) ▌W. Kenyon (R)	House: ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌C. Kennedy (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌F. Woods (R) ▌ H. Towner (R) ▌W. Green (R) ▌C. Dowell (R) ▌H. Hull (R) ▌ C. Ramseyer (R) ▌T. Steele (D) ▌B. Sweet (R)
65th	Senate: ▌A. Cummins (R) ▌W. Kenyon (R)	House: ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌C. Kennedy (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌F. Woods (R) ▌ H. Towner (R) ▌W. Green (R) ▌G. Scott (R) ▌C. Dowell (R) ▌H. Hull (R) ▌ C. Ramseyer (R) ▌B. Sweet (R)
66th	Senate: ▌A. Cummins (R) ▌W. Kenyon (R)	House: ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌C. Kennedy (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌ H. Towner (R) ▌W. Green (R) ▌C. Dowell (R) ▌H. Hull (R) ▌ C. Ramseyer (R) ▌B. Sweet (R) ▌W. Boies (R) ▌ L. Dickinson (R)
67th	Senate: ▌A. Cummins (R) ▌W. Kenyon (R) ▌C. Rawson (R) ▌S. Brookhart (R)	House: ▌G. Haugen (R) ▌ J. Good (R) ▌ H. Towner (R) ▌W. Green (R) ▌C. Dowell (R) ▌H. Hull (R) ▌ C. Ramseyer (R) ▌B. Sweet (R) ▌W. Boies (R) ▌ L. Dickinson (R) ▌W. Kopp (R) ▌C. Cole (R)

v t e Chairs of the United States House Committee on Appropriations
Stevens Washburne Dawes Garfield Randall Clymer Holman Atkins Hiscock Randall J. Cannon Holman Sayers J. Cannon Hemenway Tawney Fitzgerald Sherley Good Davis Madden Anthony Wood Byrns Buchanan Taylor C. Cannon Taber C. Cannon Taber C. Cannon Mahon Whitten Natcher Obey Livingston Young Lewis Obey Rogers Frelinghuysen Lowey DeLauro Granger Cole

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