Justus Goebel, Sr. (July 21, 1858 – March 11, 1919) of Covington, Kentucky, was a Kentucky delegate to the 1912 Democratic National Convention[1] and a tax-reform advocate.

[2] He was born on July 21, 1858, in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, to Wilhelm Goebel and Augusta Groenkle.

[3][4] He married Elizabeth Reynolds and they had three children, Lieutenant Justus Goebel II (1892–1957); Captain William Arthur Goebel (born 1887), who both served in the American Expeditionary Forces; and Lilie Goebel Heusch, of Columbus, Ohio.

[7] In a speech after his brother's assassination in 1900, Goebel accused corporate interests of being behind the crime and demanded that "The guilty in high places be uncovered, and justice be done to them.

[1] He died on March 11, 1919, in Cincinnati, Ohio, of the Spanish flu.