Biography of Martin Van Buren Godbey - Raleigh Co. WV


Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the 
Legislature, Officers of the State Governement and judges of 
the Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virigina, 1917.

Source: 
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official
Register, 1917, Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk
of the Senate, The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West 
Va. pgs. 719 - 770

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
pg. 724

GODBEY, MARTIN VAN BUREN. (Republican.)
Born in Raleigh county, December 19,1879; educated in the public
schools, at Marshall College and at Grant University; a physician
and surgeon; received the degree of M. D. from Maryland Medical
College; elected to the House of Delegates from Boone county in 
1908; a member of the State Board of Health 1909-13; elected to 
the State Senate in 1914, from the Eighth District; in 1917 had 
the following committee assignments: Forestry and Conservation 
(Chairman); To Examine the Clerk's Office (Chairman); Railroads,
Insurance, Mines and Mining, Medicine and Sanitation, Public
Printing, Rules, Virginia Debt. Appointed Chief Medical Examiner
of the Workmen's Compensation Fund, May 1,1917.



Submitted by Valerie Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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