Samuel Goode | |
State: | Virginia |
District: | 8th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1799 |
Term End: | March 3, 1801 |
Predecessor: | Thomas Claiborne |
Successor: | Thomas Claiborne |
Office2: | Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Mecklenburg County |
Term2: | 1778–1781 Alongside Henry Delony, Robert Munford and Lewis Burwell |
Term3: | 1783–1784 Alongside Thomas Pettus and William Randolph |
Birth Date: | 21 March 1756 |
Birth Place: | Chesterfield County, Virginia Colony, British America |
Death Place: | Mecklenburg County, Virginia, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Branch: | Virginia militia |
Rank: | Colonel |
Battles: | American Revolutionary War |
Allegiance: | United States of America |
Samuel Goode (March 21, 1756November 14, 1822) was a United States representative from Virginia. Born in "Whitby" in Chesterfield County in the Colony of Virginia, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. During the American Revolutionary War he served as a lieutenant in the Chesterfield Troop of Horse and later as a colonel of militia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1778 to 1785, and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixth Congress, serving from March 4, 1799, to March 3, 1801. After leaving Congress, Goode returned to law, along with managing his land.
His son was Dr. Thomas Goode, who was later the owner and operator of the Homestead spa.[1]
He died in Invermay, Mecklenburg County; interment was on his estate near Invermay.