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{{Infobox US Cabinet official
| name=James William Good
| image=James William Good, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919.jpg
| order=50th
| title=[[United States Secretary of War]]
| term_start=[[March 6]], [[1929]]
| term_end=[[November 18]], [[1929]]
| president=[[Herbert Hoover]]
| predecessor=[[Dwight F. Davis]]
| successor=[[Patrick J. Hurley]]
| birth_date={{birth date|1866|9|24|mf=y}}
| birth_place=[[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| death_date={{death date and age|1929|11|18|1866|9|24|mf=y}}
| death_place=[[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse=
| profession=[[Politician]], [[Lawyer]]
}}
'''James William Good''' ([[September 24]], [[1866]] – [[November 18]], [[1929]]) was an American politician from the state of [[Iowa]]. He was a member of the [[United States Republican Party]].
Good was born near [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]] and studied at [[Coe College]], graduating in 1892. He later studied at the [[University of Michigan]] Law School, and was a lawyer before entering politics. He was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1909 to 1921, and was chairman of the [[House Appropriations Committee]] from 1917 to 1921. He was reelected to a seventh term in Congress in 1920, but resigned in June 1921. He practiced law in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
In 1928 he worked to elect [[Herbert Hoover]], a fellow Iowa Republican, as President of the United States. When Hoover took office in March 1929, he appointed Good to be the [[United States Secretary of War]] and Good was soon confirmed by the Senate. He served in that position for eight months, until his sudden death from [[peritonitis]] caused by a ruptured [[appendix]]. He died in [[Washington, D.C.]], shortly after the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929]] ([[October 24]] - [[October 29]], 1929) which caused the [[Great Depression]]. He was succeeded by Undersecretary of War [[Patrick J. Hurley]].
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[[Image:James W. Good sworn as War Secretary.jpg|thumb|left|Good (right) being sworn in as War Secretary by John B. Randolph. Outgoing Secretary Dwight Davis at left.]]
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[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa]]
[[Category:United States Secretaries of War]]
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