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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoFrank Robert GOODING
(1859-1928)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1928Party: RepublicanGOODING, Frank Robert, a
Senator from Idaho; born in Tiverton, England, September 16, 1859;
immigrated in 1867 to the United States with his parents, who
settled on a farm near Paw Paw, Mich.; attended the common schools;
moved to Shasta, Calif., in 1877 and engaged in farming and mining;
moved to Idaho in 1881 and settled in Ketchum, where he worked as a
mail carrier, and subsequently engaged in the firewood and charcoal
business; in 1888 settled near the present site of Gooding, which
is named for him; engaged in farming and stock raising; member,
State senate 1900-1904; Governor of Idaho 1905-1908; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1918 to the United States Senate; elected
in 1920 as a Republican to the United States Senate for the term
commencing March 4, 1921; subsequently appointed to the Senate on
January 8, 1921, to become effective January 15, 1921, to fill the
vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1921, caused by the resignation
of John F. Nugent; reelected in 1926, and served from January 15,
1921, until his death in Gooding, Idaho, June 24, 1928; interment
in Elmwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Frank Gooding. 70th
Cong., 2nd sess., 1928-1929. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1929; Schlup, Leonard. “Senator Frank Gooding and the
Crusade for Agricultural Reform in the 1920s.” Idaho
Yesterdays 41 (Winter 1998): 26-32.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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