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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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GOODLING, George Atlee, (father of William Franklin Goodling),
a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Loganville, York County,
Pa., September 26, 1896; attended the public schools, York Collegiate
Institute, and Bellefont Academy; Pennsylvania State University, B.S. 1921;
served as a seaman, second class in the United States Navy from March 1918 to
December 1918; operator of a fruit farm near Loganville, Pa.; director of a
bank, motor club, and insurance company; served in the State house of
representatives, 1943-1957; school director, 1933-1961; elected as a Republican
to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3,
1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth
Congress; elected to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); was not a candidate for reelection in 1974
to the Ninety-fourth Congress; resided in Loganville, Pa. until his death in
York, Pa. on October 17, 1982; interment at Emmanuel United Methodist Church
Cemetery, Loganville, Pa.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: George A. Goodling, Republican
Representative from Pennsylvania. Washington, D. C.: Grossman
Publishers, 1972.
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