James William Good

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=James William Good


order=50th
title=United States Secretary of War
term_start=March 6, 1929
term_end=November 18, 1929
president=Herbert Hoover
predecessor=Dwight F. Davis
successor=Patrick J. Hurley
birth_date=birth date|1866|9|24|mf=y
birth_place=Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1929|11|18|1866|9|24|mf=y
death_place=Washington, D.C., U.S.
party=Republican
spouse=
profession=Politician, Lawyer

James William Good (September 24, 1866 – November 18, 1929) was an American politician from the state of Iowa. He was a member of the United States Republican Party.

Good was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa and studied at Coe College, graduating in 1892. He later studied at the University of Michigan Law School, and was a lawyer before entering politics. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1909 to 1921, and was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee from 1917 to 1921. He was reelected to a seventh term in Congress in 1920, but resigned in June 1921. He practiced law in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1928 he worked to elect Herbert Hoover, a fellow Iowa Republican, as President of the United States. When Hoover took office in March 1929, he appointed Good to be the United States Secretary of War and Good was soon confirmed by the Senate. He served in that position for eight months, until his sudden death from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix. He died in Washington, D.C., shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 24 - October 29, 1929) which caused the Great Depression. He was succeeded by Undersecretary of War Patrick J. Hurley.

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