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
Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
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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
Melrose, Massachusetts
Melrose is a city located in the Greater Boston metropolitan area in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Its population, per the 2020 United States Census, is 29,817. It is a suburb located approximately seven miles north of Boston. I ...
Board of Aldermen
An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members them ...
in 1912, and continued until 1914. He rejoined in 1916, and stayed for four more years. He served as president in 1920. He was the mayor of Melrose from 1921 to 1923. He became a member of the Massachusetts State Guard and legal adviser to aid draft registrants during the
First World War. He was 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
, in 1939 and 1940, and chairman of the
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
Events
January
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. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Tax Appeals from 1955 to 1960.
See also
* Massachusetts legislature:
1925–1926,
1927–1928,
1929–1930,
1931–1932,
1933–1934,
1935–1936,
1937–1938,
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
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1941–1942
References
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1881 births
1975 deaths
Colby College alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Mayors of Melrose, Massachusetts
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
People from Melrose, Massachusetts
People from Fairfield, Maine
Presidents of the Massachusetts Senate
Republican Party Massachusetts state senators
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
20th-century American politicians