Background
Goff, Abe Mcgregor was born on December 21, 1899 in Colfax, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Herbert William and Mary (Dorsey) Goff.
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Goff, Abe Mcgregor was born on December 21, 1899 in Colfax, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Herbert William and Mary (Dorsey) Goff.
After serving as a private during World War I, he entered the law school at the University of Idaho in nearby Moscow and graduated in 1924.
He served in the United States. Army in both world wars. He was also the center on the Vandal football team Goff commenced practice in Moscow the same year and was the prosecuting attorney for Latah County from 1926 to 1934.
He also worked as a special lecturer at the UI law school from 1933 to 1941.
In 1940, he was made president of the Idaho Bar Association. In 1941, Goff was elected to the state senate.
Goff was on General MacArthur"s staff at the end of the war and was discharged as a colonel in 1946. In 1946, Goff was elected to as a Republican, defeating seven-term incumbent Compton White of Clark Fork.
He served only one term, as White defeated him in 1948 and reclaimed the seat for a term.
Source: 1948 election included 93 votes (01%) for Socialist Party candidate Richard M. Shaefer. He was general counsel of the Post Office Department, and later served on the Interstate Commerce Commission, from 1954 to 1967. After his terms ended, he retired to the Palouse in Idaho, working as a writer and lecturer in Moscow until his death in 1984.
Goff married Florence Letitia Richardson (1892–1987) of Moscow in 1927.
They had two children: Timothy Richardson Goff (1932-1972) and Annie McGregor Goff (b 1935).
Board directors Federal Bar Foundation Served as private United States Army, World War I. From major to colonel, Judge Advocate General Corps Army of the United States, 1941-1946. Member Federal Bar Association, Idaho Bar Association (president 1940-1941), American Bar Association (house delegations 1941), American Society International Law, Military Order Carabao, Beta Theta Pi, Scabbard and Blade.
Clubs: Mason.
Married Florence Richardson, August 24, 1927. Children– Timothy R. (deceased), Annie McGregor.