John Reinhard Goodman (died July 8, 1865) was an Episcopal clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate (1836–1837).
[1] John R. Goodman became pastor of the Episcopal congregation in Brunswick, New York, in April 1821 and continued there until 1828.
[2] He then served as rector of Christ Church, New Bern, North Carolina, from 1828 to 1834[3] Thereafter, until 1837, he was rector of St. John's Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
In later years he lived in Philadelphia and remained active in denominational gatherings up until the year of his death.
[5] He was the author of ‘’Pennsylvania Biography, or Memoirs of Eminent Pennsylvanians’’ (1840).