John Goode, Jr. was a prominent Virginia Democratic politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War and then was a three-term postbellum United States Congressman, as well as the acting Solicitor General of the United States. Goode was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He was graduated at Emory & Henry College in 1848, studied law at Lexington Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. In the latter year he was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and in 1861 sat in the State convention that passed the ordinance of secession. With the... impending dissolution of the United States in 1861, Goode was elected to the Virginia secession convention. With the affirmative vote and Virginia's subsequent secession, Goode was elected to both the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress, serving from February 22, 1862, until the end of the war, and during the recesses of that body acted as volunteer aide on the staff of Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early. After the war, Goode resumed his law practice and again served in the state House of Delegates in 1866 and 1867.
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| Birthdate: | May 27, 1829 |
| Birthplace: | Bedford County, Virginia |
| Date of death: | July 14, 1909 |
| Education: | Emory and Henry College, Washington and Lee University School of Law |