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Permanent LinkSenator Frank M. Goodykoontz View All Years
FRANK M. GOODYKOONTZ was born at Anderson, Indiana, April 16, 1842; he died at Mitchell, South Dakota, November 24, 1898. His parents settled at Waukon, Iowa, about the year 1856. He attended only the common schools and was to a great extent a self-educated man. He was admitted to the bar at Waukon at the age of twenty-one, and practiced at that place and also at Le Roy, Minnesota, Postville, Lime Springs and Mason City. At the latter place he resided several years and became widely known throughout Iowa as an eloquent pleader and most successful lawyer. He was elected to our State senate in 1880 for four years, and at the close of his first session resigned and settled in Chamberlain, South Dakota. He later on moved to Mitchell, where he spent the remainder of his life. He attained a high position and much influence in his new home and came very near an election as U. S. senator in 1897.