Goodwin Knight

31st Governor of California
Political Party 	Republican
Term 	October 5, 1953 - January 5, 1959  (56-62)
Lieutenant Governor	Harold J. Powers
Predecessor 	Earl Warren
Successor 	Pat Brown
Full Name 	Goodwin Jess Knight
Birth 	
December 9, 1896
Provo, Utah
Father 	Jesse Jasper Knight  (1865-1945)
Mother 	Lillie Jane Milner  (1866-1942)
Sisters 	Dolly Knight Land  (1888-1965)
Alma Mater 	Stanford University  (A.B. 1919)
Military Service	
United States Navy
1917-1918
Occupation 	
35th Lieutenant Governor of California  (1947-1953)
Judge of the Los Angeles, California Superior Court  (1935-1944)
Lawyer
Death 	
May 22, 1970
Inglewood, California
(73 years)
Marriages
Arvilla Pearl Cooley  (1901-1952) 	
Married September 9, 1925
Widowed October 27, 1952
(27 years)
Virginia Piergue Carlson  (1918-2010)	
Married August 2, 1954
(15 years)
Children
Marilyn Martha Knight MacDougall
(m.1950 Allen MacDougall)	
Born 1927
(88 years)
Carolyn Jane Knight Weedman
(m.1955 Charles Weedman)	
Born 1933
Died 1970
(37 years)