Background
Goodbar, Joseph Ernest was born on January 31, 1890 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Joseph Lee and Kate (De Pass) Goodbar.
Goodbar, Joseph Ernest was born on January 31, 1890 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Joseph Lee and Kate (De Pass) Goodbar.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Arkansas, 1910. Bachelor of Laws, magna cum laude, Boston University, 1930. Master of Laws, Harvard, 1931, Scientiae Juridicae Doctor, 1933.
Clerk with Alfred Peats Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1910-1912 and 1914-1917. In mercantile business, Portland, Maine, 1912-1914. President Wall-Goodbar Company, Boston.
1917-1926.
Admitted to Massachusetts bar, 1930, Illinois, 1932, New York, 1937, Maine, 1948. Practiced law in Chicago, 1931-1932. Legal practice and research in money, banking and economics, Boston and New York City, 1933-1946.
Lecturer at Boston University School of Law.
Head department.of business administration University of Tampa since 1949. Lectured in Berlin, Munich and Budapest, 1938, on money and banking.
Testified before House and Senate Coms. on banking measures, 1937, 1938, before Ways and Means Committee on taxation, 1942. Special consultant, unites states department Commerce, 1942.
Advisor Endicott College.
Counsel Made in America Foundation. Director and vice president Phi Beta Kappa Associates, 1940-1944. Director, Cavalcade of Maine Youth, 1946.
Member American and Boston bar associations, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Academy of Political Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Economic Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Theta Phi. Mason (32°, Knights Templar, Shriner). Clubs: Harvard (New York and Boston).
Married Octavia Walton.