Edward W. Goss

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Edward Wheeler Goss (born April 27, 1893 in Waterbury , Connecticut , † December 27, 1972 in Miami , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1930 and 1935 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Goss attended the common schools and then the Hill School in Pottstown ( Pennsylvania ). Between September and December 1918 he served in the final phase of the First World War as a soldier in the US Army . Goss was involved in the manufacture of brass between 1912 and 1930.

Politically, Goss was a member of the Republican Party . In 1924, 1928 and 1932 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions , at which Calvin Coolidge and later Herbert C. Hoover were nominated as the party's presidential candidates. Goss also served in the Connecticut Senate between 1926 and 1928 . After the death of Congressman James P. Glynn in March 1930, he was elected in the fifth constituency of Connecticut as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . This election was held at the same time as a by-election and as a regular election for 1930, so that Goss not only ended Glynn's remaining term of office from November 4, 1930, but could also begin his own legislative period immediately afterwards on March 4, 1931. After confirmation in 1932, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1935 . All of his time in the House of Representatives was overshadowed by the events of the Great Depression.

In the 1934 election, Goss was defeated by Democrat J. Joseph Smith . Between 1935 and 1939 Goss was engaged in research and statistics in the federal capital Washington. During the Second World War he was in the reserve of the Coast Guard, of which he was a member until 1948. Between 1948 and 1951, Goss worked for Investors Diversified Services, Inc. in Minneapolis . He died in Miami in December 1972.

Web links

  • Edward W. Goss in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Goss, Edward W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goss, Edward Wheeler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterbury , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1972
Place of death Miami , Florida