Godfrey G. Goodwin

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Godfrey Gummer Goodwin (January 11, 1873 – February 16, 1933) was a Representative from Minnesota. He was born Alfred Gustafson near St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota; father unknown; moved with his mother, Cecilia Carlson (née Sissa Carlsdotter), to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882 and took the name Godfrey Gummer Goodwin; attended public schools, graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1895 and from the law department of that university in 1896; admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Minnesota; married Geneva Edwina Josephina Gouldberg June 5, 1905; prosecuting attorney of Isanti County 1898 – 1907; again elected as prosecuting attorney of Isanti County in November 1913, and served until February 15, 1925, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; president of the Cambridge (Minnesota) Board of Education 1914 – 1917; elected as a Republican to the 69th, 70th, 71st, and 72nd congresses, (March 4, 1925 – February 16, 1933; after his congressional district was eliminated, failed to receive nomination to the at-large Minnesota delegation in 1932; plunged to his death from a window of the Hotel Driscoll in Washington, D.C., on February 16, 1933, only two weeks before the end of his final term; interred in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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• Bio from Congress.gov.

Preceded by Thomas D. Schall

U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 10th congressional district 1925 – 1933

Succeeded by district abolished

• Godfrey G. Goodwin at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Persondata
NAME	Goodwin, Godfrey Gummer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gustafson, Alfred
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Minnesota Representative
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Peter, Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1933
PLACE OF DEATH	Washington, D.C.