George Benjamin Goodwin (December 18, 1834 – May 1, 1886) was an American lawyer who served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican while living in Menasha in 1860.
He attended common school in Mount Morris, New York, then after preparatory study entered Genesee College in the winter of 1851, and remained until 1854,[3] when, owing to a clash within the faculty, he and several fellow students withdrew and entered the senior class at Williams College in Massachusetts, at that time run by Mark Hopkins.
In the spring of 1856 he married Harriet C. Decker, of Lima, New York, and with money barely sufficient to defray their traveling expenses, removed to the West, settling in May 1856 in Menasha.
He helped organize the first Republican club of Menasha, and took an active part in the presidential election of 1856, stumping for John C. Fremont.
[3] After the war he moved to Milwaukee, where he was an assessor of internal revenue for the United States government.