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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Zacheus GOODRICH
(1804-1885)
GOODRICH, John Zacheus, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., September 27, 1804; attended the common schools and
Lenox Academy, Lenox, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar
and practiced; engaged in manufacturing; served in the State senate
in 1848 and 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and
Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); member of
the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort
to devise means to prevent the impending war; elected, as a
Republican, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1860 and served
from January 1, 1861, until his resignation on March 29, 1861;
appointed collector of customs at Boston March 13, 1861, and served
until March 11, 1865; retired from public life and died in
Stockbridge, Mass., April 19, 1885; interment in Stockbridge
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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