John M. Goodenow

John Milton Goodenow (1782 – July 20, 1838) was an American lawyer and politician who served one year as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1829 to 1830.

Born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, Goodenow attended the public schools.

He was appointed collector of direct taxes and internal duties for the sixth collection district of Ohio in 1817.

[1] Goodenow was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1829, until April 9, 1830, when he resigned, having been chosen a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

An Ohio Presidential elector in 1832 for Andrew Jackson,[2] he was appointed presiding judge of the court of common pleas in 1833.