- Angier Goodwin
Angier Louis Goodwin (
January 30 1881 ,Fairfield, Maine –June 20 1975 ) was a Representative fromMassachusetts .He graduated from
Colby College in 1902, and attendedHarvard Law School three years later. He was admitted to the Maine bar that same year, the Massachusetts bar in the next, and practiced law inBoston .He became a member of the
Melrose, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen 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 theFirst World War . He was 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.He was a member of the
Massachusetts Senate from 1929 to 1941, and served asPresident of the Massachusetts Senate in his last year. He was chairman of theMassachusetts Commission on Participation in New York World’s Fair , in 1939 and 1940, and chairman of theMassachusetts Commission on Administration and Finance 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. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Tax Appeals from 1955 to 1960.
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after=Torbert H. Macdonald
years=January 3 1943 –January 3 1955
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