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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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GOODWIN, Angier Louis, a Representative from Massachusetts;
born in Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine, January 30, 1881;
attended the public schools;
was graduated from Colby College, Waterville, Maine, in 1902;
attended Harvard Law School in 1905;
was admitted to the Maine bar in 1905, the Massachusetts bar in 1906, and commenced the practice of law in Boston, Mass.;
member of the Melrose Board of Aldermen 1912-1914 and 1916-1920, serving as president in 1920;
mayor of Melrose, Mass., 1921-1923;
member of the Massachusetts State Guard and legal adviser to aid draft registrants during the First World War;
member of the Planning Board and chairman of the Board of Appeal, Melrose, Mass., 1923-1925;
served in the State house of representatives 1925-1928;
member of the State senate, 1929-1941, serving as president in 1941;
chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Participation in New York Worlds Fair, in 1939 and 1940;
chairman of the State Commission on Administration and Finance in 1942;
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1955);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress;
member of the Massachusetts State Board of Tax Appeals 1955-1960;
retired and resided in Melrose, Mass., where he died June 20, 1975;
interment in Wyoming Cemetery.
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