Allied with the Byrd Organization, Goode represented a district centered around Petersburg part time for more than two decades.

Born in 1886 near Skipwith in Mecklenburg County to the former Bessie Morton (1856–1890), third of four wives of CSA Col. J. Thomas Goode (1835–1916, a VMI graduate who had accompanied General Robert E. Lee to the surrender at Appomattox Court House and later served in the Virginia legislature), Morton Goode's ancestors were among the First Families of Virginia.

[7] Admitted to the Virginia bar in 1910, and elected as the Commonwealth's attorney (prosecutor) for Dinwiddie County, Goode served in that position until 1921.

He was active with the Virginia bar and in his Cavalry Episcopal Church, and would chair the State Hospital Board (Central State Hospital being Dinwiddie County's largest employer), and become a director of Southside Virginia Inc. as well as remained active in the local Red Cross, Masons (past master of Dinwiddie Lodge 36), Shriners and Ruritan organizations and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

He died of a heart condition on December 12, 1959, survived by his wife and daughters, and was buried in the family plot at the St. James Episcopal Church cemetery in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.