Guy D. Goff

Guy D. Goff

Guy Despard Goff (born September 13, 1866 in Clarksburg , West Virginia , †  January 7, 1933 in Thomasville , Georgia ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party .

Life

Guy D. Goff was born in 1866 as the son of lawyer Nathan Goff , who soon after embarked on a political career and represented the state of West Virginia in both houses of Congress .

After attending public school and the William and Mary College Goff graduated in 1888 at Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio ); In 1891 he graduated from Harvard with a law degree . In the same year he was inducted into the bar and began practicing law in Boston . From 1893 he did so after moving to Wisconsin in Milwaukee . His daughter Louise was born there in 1898 , who later also became politically active and sat in the US House of Representatives for the state of Tennessee from 1961 to 1963 .

Public offices

In Milwaukee County , Goff was elected district attorney in 1895 . In 1911 he rose after the appointment by US President William Howard Taft to the federal prosecutor for the eastern district of Wisconsin; he remained this until 1915. Two years later he was appointed as an assistant to the staff of the US Attorney General . During the First World War he also held the rank of Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps ; he worked in France and Germany from 1918 to 1919.

In 1920 he received from US President Woodrow Wilson the appointment to the highest lawyer in the United States Shipping Board , a federal agency for the regulation of the shipping traffic, of which he belonged later as a full member (until 1921). He also acted several times between 1920 and 1923 as assistant to the Minister of Justice.

In 1923 Goff returned to his hometown of Clarksburg, but the following year he was elected as a US Senator candidate for the Republican Party . His tenure in Washington began on March 4, 1925 and ended after six years; he was not nominated for re-election. During his tenure in the Senate, he was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments .

Guy Goff continued to live in Washington. He died in early 1933 while on winter vacation in Georgia.

Web links

• Guy D. Goff in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)