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GOODWIN J. KNIGHT
Goodwin J. Knight, Lieutenant Governor of California, was born December 9, 1896, in Provo, Utah; the son of Goodwin Jess and Lille J. (Milner) Knight.
After receiving his A.B. from Stanford University in 1919 he studied at Cornell University for one year and was admitted to law practice in California.
From 1920 to 1935, Mr. Knight was in private practice of the law in Los Angeles, California; then Judge of Superior Court, Los Angeles County, from 1935 to 1946. He has served as Lieutenant Governor of California since 1946.
Mr. Knight has been owner and operator of Elephant Eagle Mines, Soledad Mountain, Kern County, California, since 1933. Member of Toll Bridge Authority, Board of Regents (University of California) Commission on Interstate Cooperation (chairman). Also member of State Lands Commission, and California Disaster Council.
Member of American Legion; V.F.W.; Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Alpha Delta, Sigma Delta Chi, and Delta Sigma Rho Fraternities; Masonic Order (32nd degree); Knights of Pythias, Elks Lodge, I.O.O.F., Moose; Lincoln, and Jonathan Clubs.
On September 9, 1925, he married Arvilla Cooley and has two daughters, Marilyn Martha (Mrs. Robert A. Eaton) and Carolyn Jane. Mrs. Knight died October 27, 1952.
Mr. Knight is the author of “Goods' Budget of Boys Stories”' and is a contributor to legal periodicals.
Home: 344 South Las Palmas, Los Angeles 5, California.
Offices: State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California; and 304 State Building, Los Angeles, California.
Transcribed
10-23-14 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 497, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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