Wells Goodykoontz

Wells Goodykoontz (born June 3, 1872 in Newbern , Pulaski County , Virginia , † March 2, 1944 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a private primary school education, Goodykoontz attended Oxford Academy in Floyd, Virginia. After studying law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington and being admitted to the bar in 1893, he began working in his new profession in Williamson (West Virginia). Goodykoontz also got into banking.

Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1911 and 1912 he was a member of the West Virginia House of Representatives ; between 1914 and 1918 he was a member of the State Senate , of which he was also President. In this capacity he acted as deputy governor between 1917 and 1918 . At the same time he was President of the West Virginia Bar Association. During World War I , Goodykoontz was chairman of the legal advisory committee for the state of West Virginia.

In 1918 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Edward Cooper on March 4, 1919 . After re-election in 1920, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1923 . During this time, among other things, the nationwide right to vote for women and the prohibition law were introduced . In the 1922 election, Goodykoontz was defeated by the Democrat Thomas Jefferson Lilly . After serving in Congress, he returned to Williamson as a lawyer, devoting himself to his private banking business. Wells Goodykoontz died on March 2, 1944 in Cincinnati and was buried in Williamson.

Web links

• Wells Goodykoontz in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Wells Goodykoontz in the database of Find a Grave (English)