John Goode, (CSA), 3rd Solicitor General of the United States

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John Goode, Jr. (May 27, 1829 – July 14, 1909) was a prominent Virginia Democratic politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War and then was a three-term postbellum United States Congressman, as well as the acting Solicitor General of the United States.

Biography

Goode was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He was graduated at Emory & Henry College in 1848, studied law at Lexington Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. In the latter year he was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and in 1861 sat in the State convention that passed the ordinance of secession.

With the impending dissolution of the United States in 1861, Goode was elected to the Virginia secession convention. With the affirmative vote and Virginia's subsequent secession, Goode was elected to both the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress, serving from February 22, 1862, until the end of the war, and during the recesses of that body acted as volunteer aide on the staff of Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early.

After the war, Goode resumed his law practice and again served in the state House of Delegates in 1866 and 1867. In 1887, Goode moved to Norfolk and engaged in the practice of the law in Washington, D.C. Shortly after he moved to Norfolk, he was again elected to the Virginia legislature.

He was then chosen to the Forty-fourth United States Congress as a Democrat. He was re-elected to the Forty-fifth United States Congress and the Forty-sixth United States Congress, serving from December 6, 1875, until March 3, 1881. He was Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor during his last two terms.

Goode was a member of the Democratic National Conventions of 1868 and 1872, and was a presidential elector in 1852, 1856, and 1884.

In May 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed Goode as the acting Solicitor General of the United States, and he retained the office until August 1886. During his term of service, he visited British Columbia to represent the United States in an extradition case.

He later served on the United States and Chilean Claims Commission and was President of the Virginia Bar Association. He also was President of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901 and 1902.

Goode died at the age of 80 in Norfolk and was buried in Longwood Cemetery in Bedford, Virginia.

Electoral history

1874; Goode was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives defeating Republican James Henry Platt, Jr. and Independent Republican Robert Norton, winning 49.43% of the vote.

1876; Goode was re-elected defeating Republican Joseph Secar, winning 52.97% of the vote.

1878; Goode was re-elected defeating Republican John Frederick Dezendorf, winning 56.73% of the vote.

In 1867, Goode moved to Norfolk and practiced law in Washington, D.C. Shortly after he moved to Norfolk, he was again elected to the Virginia legislature.

John Goode, lawyer and politician, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and became Solicitor General under President Grover Cleveland, 1885-6. Previously, he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, its secession convention, a member of the Confederate Congress and a staff officer for Confederate Maj. Gen Jubal A. Early in the war between the states. Later he served as chairman of Virginia's Constitutional Convention in 1901-2.

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US Congressman. Confederate Congressman. An 1848 graduate of Emory and Henry College in Virginia, he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and established a legal practice in Bedford, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was a member of the Virginia succession convention. During the Civil War, he served as a colonel in the Confederate Army and was a Congressman in the First and Second Confederate Congresses. He moved to Norfolk, Virginia, following the war and was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1874. He served from 1875 to 1881, and was appointed Solicitor General of the United States by President Grover Cleveland, serving from 1885 to 1886. He resumed the practice of law in Norfolk and Washington, D. C., and was president of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1898.

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