Angier Goodwin
| Angier L. Goodwin | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| Former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's 8th Congressional District From: January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955 | |||
| Predecessor | Arthur D. Heasley | ||
| Successor | Torbent H. Macdonald | ||
| Former State Senator from Massachusetts's 4th District From: 1929–1941 | |||
| Predecessor | Alvin E. Bliss | ||
| Successor | Sumner G. Whittier | ||
| Former Mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts From: 1921–1923 | |||
| Predecessor | ??? | ||
| Successor | Paul H. Provandle | ||
| Former State Representative from Massachusetts's 22nd District From: 1925–1928 | |||
| Predecessor | ??? | ||
| Successor | Mary L. Barrows | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor H. Stone | ||
| Religion | Unitarian[1] | ||
Angier Louis Goodwin (January 30, 1881 – June 20, 1975) was a Republican from Massachusetts who represented the state's 8th congressional district from 1943 to 1955 in the United States House of Representatives. He was previously a mayor and legislator in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature.
Contents
Background
Goodwin was born in late January 1881 to the former Ruby Hoxie and Albert B. Goodwin in Fairfield, Maine, located in Somerset County. After graduating from Colby College, he attended Harvard in 1905 and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts the following year.
U.S. House of Representatives
Goodwin was elected to the House in the 1942 Midterm Elections, defeating Democrat Frederick T. McDermott by twelve percentage points.[2] He was re-elected five times[3] though lost in the 1954 Midterms to Torbert H. Macdonald.[4]
Reece Committee
On July 27, 1953, the House of Representatives voted to re-enact the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations at the request of Brazilla Carroll Reece, who believed that the committee conducted an insufficient job in the previous congressional session when it was chaired by Georgia segregationist Democrat Edward E. Cox (then known as the Cox Committee).[5] Goodwin was part of the forty-nine GOP representatives who voted against the resolution.[6]
Notwithstanding his vote, Goodwin was placed onto the select committee (known as the Reece Committee) along with Michigan Republican Jesse Wolcott, who supported the resolution.[6] He ultimately signed the final Dodd report and proved to be vital in approving it,[5] though expressed disagreement over the conclusions, submitting a different assertion in which he expressed a concurrence for the report of the previous Cox Committee.
References
- ↑ Goodridge to Gordinier. The Political Graveyard. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ MA District 08 Race - Nov 03, 1942. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Candidate - Angier L. Goodwin. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Hanley, Robert (May 22, 1976). Rep. Macdonald, 58, Dies; Led Election Law Reform. The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). The Reece Committee on Foundations: Conspiratorial Nonsense or an Expose of a Threat to the Nation?. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 H RES 217. RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO CON- DUCT A FULL AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION AND STUDY OF EDUCA- TIONAL AND PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM FED. INCOME TAXATION.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
