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==Early Life==

==Early Life==

Goodnow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1859,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zU80AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360 Collier's New Encyclopedia]</ref> the son of Abel F. and Jane M. (Root) Goodnow.<ref name=contemporaries>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KOgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA716 Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries]</ref> At a young age, he was educated in private schools.<ref name=contemporaries /> He graduated from Amherst College in 1879 and at law school 1882.  He and took post-graduate studies at [[Columbia University]], and overseas in Germany at the University of Berlin, and in Paris at the ''École Libre des Sciences Politiques''.<ref name=masters>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kYo-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA729 Masters of Achievement]</ref>

Goodnow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1859,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zU80AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360 Collier's New Encyclopedia]</ref> the son of Abel F. and Jane M. (Root) Goodnow.<ref name=contemporaries>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KOgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA716 Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries]</ref> His family descended from Thomas Goodnow, who came from Shasbury, England, in 1638, and settled in Massachusetts. His father was a successful manufacturer near Worcester, Massachusetts, and after his retirement from business settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he was identified with the development of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.<ref name=cyclopedia>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3zYOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 The National Cyclopædia of American Biography]</ref> At a young age, he was educated in private schools.<ref name=contemporaries /> He graduated from Amherst College in 1879 and at law school 1882.  He and took post-graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] and spent some time in the law office of Judge Dillon, in New York.<ref name=cyclopedia />  Shortly after, he studied overseas in Germany at the University of Berlin, and in Paris at the ''École Libre des Sciences Politiques''.<ref name=masters>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kYo-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA729 Masters of Achievement]</ref>

He was admitted to the New York Bar on graduation in 1882.<ref name=contemporaries />

He was admitted to the New York Bar on graduation in 1882.<ref name=contemporaries />

==Education==

==Career==

From 1883 to 1887, he was instructor in history and lecturer on the administrative law of the United States at Columbia. He was adjunct professor in the same branches from 1887 to 1891, being professor of administrative law from 1891 to 1903, and Eaton professor of administrative law and municipal science from 1903 to the time of his election as president of Johns Hopkins.<ref name=yearbook>[https://books.google.com/books?id=k0wxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA313 The New International Year Book]</ref> He was appointed as president of [[Johns Hopkins University‎]] from October 1914 - June 1929.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3mdUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265 President Elect of Johns Hopkins], March 12th, 1914</ref>

In 1883 he became instructor in history and lecturer on the administrative law of the United States, at Columbia University. He was adjunct professor of the same during 1887-91, professor of administrative law during 1891-1903,<ref name=yearbook>[https://books.google.com/books?id=k0wxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA313 The New International Year Book]</ref> Eaton professor of administrative law and political science in 1903, and acting dean of political science in 1906—07.<ref name=cyclopedia /> He was appointed as the third<ref name=cyclopedia /> president of [[Johns Hopkins University‎]] from October 1914 - June 1929.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3mdUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265 President Elect of Johns Hopkins], March 12th, 1914</ref>

 

He was the first president of the American Political Science Association, and he was a member of the American Economic Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C., the Peking Club of Peking, the Century, University and City clubs of New York, the Maryland and Baltimore clubs of Baltimore. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Amherst in 1897, Columbia in 1904, Harvard in 1909, and Brown in 1914.<ref name=cyclopedia />

==Administration==

==Administration==

Throughout his career in education and as an author, Goodnow built up a solid reputation as one of the best known authorities<ref name=yearbook /> on constitutional, administrative, and municipal law, and he was a frequent adviser in the legislative councils of New York State.<ref name=nie /> He was a member of the Commission to Revise the of the City of New York, 1900-1901, and a member of the Commission of the National Federation on Public Ownership, 1905-1906. He was also a member of the Association Bar of the of City of New York.<ref name=contemporaries />

In addition to his work at the university, Dr. Goodnow held many important outside appointments. Throughout his career, Goodnow built up a solid reputation as one of the best known authorities<ref name=yearbook /> on constitutional, administrative, and municipal law, and he was a frequent adviser in the legislative councils of New York State.<ref name=nie />

 

For several years he was interested, through the City Club of New York, in drafting and proposing new legislation for the improvement of the condition of the poor, for overcoming congestion of population and for child welfare. Governor [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] appointed him<ref name=cyclopedia /> a member of the New York Charter Revision Committee(1900-1901), and he went to England in 1906 as a member of the National Civic Federation to report on the question of municipal ownership of public utilities. In 1910 he was a representative of the U. S. government to the convention on administrative science, held at the Brussels Exposition. He was a member of Pres. Taft's Economy and Efficiency Commission in 1911-12, and made an exhaustive investigation of certain of the government departments for the purpose of instituting modern business methods. He was also a member of the Association Bar of the of City of New York.<ref name=contemporaries />

In 1913-1914 he acted as legal adviser to the Chinese Government.

His reputation as an authority on government administration led to his appointment, in 1913, as expert legal advisor to the republic of China for a term of three years and, at the request of Yuan Shih Kai, he aided in drafting the new Chinese Constitution.<ref name=cyclopedia />

==Ideology==

==Ideology==

==Works==

==Works==

His published writings include “Municipal problems" (1897); “City Government in the United States” (1904); “Municipal Government” (1910); "Social Reform and the Constitution” (1911). He also edited many works on the Constitution and Government.

Dr. Goodnow is the author of "Comparative Administrative Law" (1893); "Municipal Home Rule" (1895); "Municipal Problems" (1897); "Politics and Administration" (1900); "City Government in the United States" (1904) ; "Principles of the Administrative Law of the United States" (1905); and editor of "Selected Cases on the Law of Taxation" (1905) ; "Selected Cases on Government and Administration" (1906); "Selected Cases on the Law of Officers" (1906) ; "Municipal Government" (1910) ; and "Social Reform and the Constitution" (1911) .<ref name=cyclopedia />

==Editor==

==Editor==

Selected Cases on the Law of Taxation; Selected Cases on Government and Administration; Selected Cases on the Law of Officers<ref name=masters />

Selected Cases on the Law of Taxation; Selected Cases on Government and Administration; Selected Cases on the Law of Officers<ref name=masters />

==Frank J. Goodnow Award==

==Frank J. Goodnow Award==

==References==

==References==

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