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Preceded by
  
John C. Wright

Role
  
U.S. representative

Resigned
  
April 9, 1830

Name
  
John Goodenow

Succeeded by
  
Political party
  
Jacksonian

Party
  
Jacksonian democracy

Preceded by
  
Spouse
  
Lucy Campbell


John M. Goodenow

Preceded by
  
Jere H. Halleck, James Wilson, Samuel McNary

Children
  
Lucy, Angela Jane, Lucia

Died
  
July 20, 1838, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Books
  
Historical sketches of the principles and maxims of American jurisprudence

John Milton Goodenow (1782–1838) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, Goodenow attended the public schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1813. He was appointed collector of direct taxes and internal duties for the sixth collection district of Ohio in 1817. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1823.

He served the Freemasons as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 1827.

Goodenow was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1829, until April 9, 1830, when he resigned, having been chosen a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He resigned in the summer of 1830 on account of ill health. He moved to Cincinnati in 1832.

An Ohio Presidential elector in 1832 for Andrew Jackson, he was appointed presiding judge of the court of common pleas in 1833. He died in Cincinnati, July 20, 1838. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

Publications

  • Goodenow, John (1819). Historical Sketches of the Principles and Maxims of American Jurisprudence: In Contrast with the Doctrines of the English Common Law on the Subject of Crimes and Punishment. Steubenville, Ohio: James Wilson. OCLC 4343241.  - “was the first important commentary on the status of the English common law in America”, and “is an important resource for legal historians studying the development of American jurisprudence.”, though only 100 copies were printed.
  • References

    John M. Goodenow Wikipedia


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