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HONORABLE JAMES W. GOOD
Honorable James W. Good, Secretary of
War in the
cabinet of President Hoover, was the
most distinguished
official who attended the unveiling of
the monument in
honor of General Anthony Wayne and he
delivered the
principal address at the banquet in the
evening in the
Commodore Perry Hotel. No one who heard
him would
have predicted that this would be the
last distinguished
service of this character he would
perform for the Chief
Executive of the Nation and the
thousands who were so
fortunate as to hear him. But such it
was, and long will
an element of pathos attach to the
patriotic words that
fell from his lips on this occasion.
Secretary Good died
in Washington, D. C., at 8:30 p. m.
November 18, only
a little more than two months after he
delivered this
address.
James W. Good was born at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa,
September 24, 1866. He was graduated
from Coe Col-
lege, Iowa, in 1892, and from the Law
School of the
University of Michigan in 1893. He was
City Attorney
of Cedar Rapids in 1906-1908; Member of
Congress
from the Iowa Sixth District 1909-1923;
resigned from
Congress and entered upon the practice
of law in Chi-
cago. He was an active supporter of Herbert
Hoover
for President at the primary and in the
election in 1928.
He was appointed Secretary of War, a
position that he
held at the time of his death.
The guests at the dedication and
banquet who saw
and heard the address by Secretary of
War Good were
reminded that Toledo and Ohio have a
representative in