James L. Goddard (April 24, 1923 – December 18, 2009) was an American

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

who served as the Director of the Communicable Disease Center from 1962 to 1966 and as

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from 1966 to 1968. He died of a brain hemorrhage on December 18, 2009, in

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at age 86.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goddard, James L. 1923 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American physicians Commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kennedy administration personnel Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences alumni Harvard School of Public Health alumni