Charles Goddard (politician)

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Charles W. Goddard was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. Goddard, a Whig turned Republican, served two single year terms in the Maine Senate (1858, 1859). In his second year, he was chosen Senate President. [1]

Goddard was born in Portland and practiced law in Lewiston and Auburn. He lived in Auburn while in the Senate. In 1854, when Androscoggin County was formed from Lincoln and Cumberland counties, Goddard was the county's first County Attorney.[2]

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Goddard as the Consul-General at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire.[2] He replaced David Porter Heap. In 1864, he returned to the United States and was replaced by Eugene Schuyler.[3]

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