Angier Louis Goodwin | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's8th district | |
| In office January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955 | |
| Preceded by | Arthur Daniel Healey |
| Succeeded by | Torbert Macdonald |
| Chairman of theMassachusetts Commission on Administration and Finance | |
| In office 1941–1942 | |
| Preceded by | Patrick J. Moynihan |
| Succeeded by | Paul W. Foster |
| President of theMassachusetts Senate | |
| In office 1941–1941 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph R. Cotton |
| Succeeded by | Jarvis Hunt |
| Member of theMassachusetts Senate from the4th Middlesex district | |
| In office 1929–1941 | |
| Preceded by | Alvin E. Bliss |
| Succeeded by | Sumner G. Whittier |
| Mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts | |
| In office 1921 – January 2, 1923 | |
| Preceded by | Charles H. Adams |
| Succeeded by | Paul H. Provandle |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 22nd Middlesex district | |
| In office 1925–1928 | |
| Preceded by | Charles H. Gilmore |
| Succeeded by | Mary Livermore Barrows |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 30, 1881 |
| Died | June 20, 1975 (aged 94) |
| Party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Colby College Harvard Law School |
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Angier Louis Goodwin (January 30, 1881 – June 20, 1975) was a United States representative fromMassachusetts.
Goodwin graduated fromColby College in 1902, and fromHarvard 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 inBoston.
He became a member of theMelrose, MassachusettsBoard 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 theFirst World War. He was a member of thePlanning Board and chairman of the Board of Appeal in Melrose between 1923 and 1925.
He served in theMassachusetts House of Representatives from 1925 to 1928, and was a member of theMassachusetts Senate from 1929 to 1941, serving asSenate 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 theMassachusetts 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 in1954, he was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Tax Appeals from 1955 to 1960.
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| 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 fromMassachusetts's 8th congressional district January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955 | Succeeded by |
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