In 1906, Godwin was first elected to the United States Congress; he would be re-elected six times, serving from March 4, 1907 to March 3, 1921. In Congress, he rose to chair the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. He lost his Congressional race in 1920 and returned to the practice of law in Dunn, where he died in 1929; he is buried in Dunn's Greenwood Cemetery.
Congressman Godwin was born on a farm near Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina, November 3, 1873, a son of Archibald B. and Rebecca Eliza (Reaves) Godwin, natives of Harnett.
Godwin have had seven children born to them: Ruby Barnes; Mattie Belle, who is the wife of Paul Jones, of Dunn; Marjorie Elizabeth, who is the wife of J.
The family of Godwin is an old and honored one in the state, and the town of Godwin in Cumberland County was named in honor of an uncle of Congressman Godwin.
Godwin apparently permitted the murder of another claimant to the throne, Alfred Ætheling, son of Queen Emma by her first husband, Æthelred the Unready, and brother of Edward (later Edward the Confessor).
In 1051, when Edward ordered Godwin to punish the people of Dover for a fracas with Eustace II of Boulogne and his retinue, Godwin took the opportunity to challenge the king's strength by refusing.
Godwin was succeeded as earl of Wessex by his son Harold.
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