Philip H. Goodman | |
Order: | 43rd |
Office: | Mayor of Baltimore |
Term Start: | December 6, 1962 |
Term End: | 1963 |
Predecessor: | J. Harold Grady |
Successor: | Theodore McKeldin |
Order2: | President of the Baltimore City Council |
Term Start2: | 1961 |
Term End2: | 1962 |
Office3: | Member of the Maryland Senate |
Term Start3: | 1955 |
Term End3: | 1960 |
Office4: | Member of the Baltimore City Council |
Term Start4: | 1951 |
Term End4: | 1954 |
Birth Date: | 26 November 1915 |
Birth Place: | Kolk, Volhynia |
Death Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Har Sinai Cemetery Owings Mills, Maryland, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic |
Philip H. Goodman (November 26, 1915 – May 1, 1976) was an American politician, 43rd Mayor of the City of Baltimore and a member of the Maryland Senate. He was Jewish of Polish descent and is buried at Har Sinai Cemetery in Owings Mills.
Goodman was born in the shtetl of Kołki, then part of the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Kolky in the Volyn Oblast of Ukraine).[1] [2] His family moved to the United States when he was six.[1]
Goodman grew up in Baltimore and attended the Baltimore City College high school.[1] He earned his law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.[1]