81 Facts About Hurley Goodall

Hurley Goodall graduated from Muncie Central High School and served in the United States Army for two years.

Hurley Goodall was active in his local UAW-CIO where he served as its recording secretary and vice-president.

Hurley Goodall was the first black firefighter in Muncie, served on the city's Human Rights Commission, and was the first and only black member of the Muncie school board until 1993.

Hurley Goodall was an active member of the Democratic Party and served as the secretary of the Indiana Democratic Party from 1989 to 2004.

Hurley Goodall formed an organization to work against the reelection of Senator Vance Hartke, served on Birch Bayh's senatorial steering committee in Delaware County, and chaired Baron Hill's senatorial campaign.

Hurley Goodall served as a delegate to four Democratic National Conventions.

Hurley Goodall was elected to the state house in the 1978 election and was served until his retirement during the 1992 election.

Hurley Goodall ran for the position of majority floor leader, but was defeated by John R Gregg.

Hurley Goodall aided in the foundation of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and served as its first chair until his retirement from the state house.

Hurley Goodall's grandmother had been born a slave in 1862.

Hurley Goodall graduated from Muncie Central High School in 1945, and served in the United States Army for two years until 1947.

Hurley Goodall was later given a honorary degree from Ball State University.

Hurley Goodall married Fredine Wynn, with whom he had two children, in 1948.

Hurley Goodall was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Hurley Goodall served as recording secretary and vice-president of the UAW-CIO Local 532 and as a delegate to the CIO's convention.

Hurley Goodall served on the board of the NAACP in Muncie and on the executive committee of the Indiana NAACP.

Hurley Goodall was appointed to the Human Rights Commission by Mayor John Hampton in 1966, and served until he declined to be reappointed in 1969.

Hurley Goodall was later appointed by the Human Rights Commission to replace Lanny Carmichael as its executive director in 1977.

However, the commission voted six to three to appoint Carl C Wilson as executive director instead after Goodall rejected the position.

Hurley Goodall was unable to take the position as he held another city job, working for the fire department, and would not be eligible for retirement until January 1978.

Hurley Goodall won in the election by placing second out of six candidates, behind Peckinpaugh, after spending $1,265 during the campaign and took office on July 1,1971.

Hurley Goodall received large amounts of support from majority black precincts with him receiving 550 votes compared to Peckinpaugh's eight and Wray's eleven in the 12th precinct.

Hurley Goodall was the first black person to serve on the school board in Muncie.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as chair of the Central Region of the National Caucus of Black School Board Members in 1974, and was one of twenty people chosen to serve on the Indiana School Boards Association's legislative committee in its 1975 session.

Hurley Goodall announced on February 15,1974, that he would not seek reelection and was replaced by Stephen D Slavin, who took office in 1975.

However, Slavin died in a plane crash on November 9,1975, and Hurley Goodall was selected by a unanimous vote to fill the remainder of Slavin's term starting on November 17, and ending on July 1,1979.

John Shepherd, a member of the Delaware County Council, resigned on August 2,1976, while facing criminal charges and Hurley Goodall was mentioned as a possible replacement, but Hurley Goodall refused stating that he had a commitment to the school board.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as a committeeman from the 12th precinct for the Delaware County Democratic Party.

Hurley Goodall was the campaign coordinator in Muncie for Richard Heath's county sheriff campaign in the 1982 election.

Hurley Goodall opposed Senator Vance Hartke and formed an organization opposing him in the 1976 election due to Hartke's support for George Wallace's presidential campaign.

Hurley Goodall supported Senator Birch Bayh during the 1980 election and served in the Indiana Blacks For Senator Birch Bayh committee and Bayh's steering committee in Delaware County.

Hurley Goodall supported Wayne Townsend during the 1984 gubernatorial election.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as secretary of the Indiana Democratic Party in 1989, and served until his resignation on November 23,2004.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as the chair of Baron Hill's 1990 senatorial campaign.

Hurley Goodall was not on the approved delegate list and he later stated at a Credentials committee hearing that his "only crime, seems to be that I was not anointed from on high".

Senator Alan Cranston, the chair of the committee, praised Goodall stating that he "won the hearts and admiration of the committee" and the committee reprimanded Bill K Trisler, the chair of the Indiana Democratic Party.

Hurley Goodall was given a position as an alternate delegate after alternate delegate Ronald E Davenport took over the position of at-large delegate Beatrice Woods.

Hurley Goodall criticized Ted Kennedy and his supporters for attempting to change the rules to allow delegates to support the candidate of their own choice instead of the one they were pledged to.

Hurley Goodall stated that he "would not like to see the convention go back to the smoke-filled rooms".

Jack Watson had Hurley Goodall ask the Indiana delegation to support a plank at the convention supporting the deployment of the MX missile defense system.

Hurley Goodall stated that it was "possible for Mondale to get 45 percent, all the others to get less than 20 percent, and Mondale gets all the delegates".

Hurley Goodall served as a temporary member on the credential, platform, and rules committees at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

Hurley Goodall served as the chair of the Indiana Coalition for Better Government, an organization that came from the Black Political Caucus that was founded by supporters of Jackson's presidential campaign.

Hurley Goodall served as a delegate to the 1992 Democratic National Convention for Bill Clinton.

Hurley Goodall was the oldest member of Indiana's delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Voisard announced that he would not seek reelection after Hurley Goodall filed and he endorsed Larry Dotson, who served as his campaign treasurer during the 1976 election, to succeed him.

Hurley Goodall was the first black person elected to the state house from Delaware County.

Hurley Goodall was sworn in on November 21, and resigned from the school board on January 1,1979, where he was replaced by Bill Burns.

Hurley Goodall was reelected in the 1980 election without opposition.

Hurley Goodall was reelected without opposition in the 1982 election despite John Hampton, the chair of the Delaware County Republican Party, stating that the Republicans would appoint a candidate as he thought "we've got a shot at beating him".

Hurley Goodall defeated Cummins, Robert Raines, Edgar Smith, and George Boxell in the Democratic primary while winning a majority in every precinct except for two majority white ones where he received a plurality.

Hurley Goodall defeated Republican nominee Mark Anthony in the general election after raising $7,385 during the campaign compared to Anthony's $491.

Hurley Goodall defeated Republican nominee Stephen Ramsey, a union organizer, in the 1986 election after raising $10,500 during the campaign compared to Ramsey's $1,100.

Hurley Goodall defeated Republican nominee Herbert A Vollmar in the 1988 election after spending $4,400 compared to Vollmar's $3,900.

Hurley Goodall won in the 1990 election without opposition after raising $12,018 and spending $4,364.

Hurley Goodall announced on November 25,1991, that he would not seek reelection and Republican nominee Frederick Wenger was elected to succeed him.

Hurley Goodall was the ranking minority member on the Labor and Public Safety committees.

Hurley Goodall served as vice-chair of the Labor committee and co-chair of the Public Safety committee alongside Representative John Matonovich.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as the assistant Democratic floor leader in 1988.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as the assistant Democratic floor leader in 1988.

Hurley Goodall ran for the position of majority floor leader in 1990, but lost on the first ballot to John R Gregg.

Hurley Goodall was selected to serve as the first chair of the Indiana Caucus of Black Democratic Elected Officials in 1980.

Hurley Goodall was one of the founding members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and served as its chair until his retirement.

Hurley Goodall was appointed to serve on the Indiana Economic Development Council by Governor Evan Bayh in 1990.

Hurley Goodall was diagnosed with prostate cancer after returning from the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

Hurley Goodall worked as a visiting scholar to Ball State University and was selected to serve for three months as the first citizens' representative on the editorial board of The Star Press.

Hurley Goodall's wife died in 2009, and Goodall died on May 12,2021.

Hurley Goodall proposed a constitutional amendment in the state house to require certain appointments by the governor to be approved by the Indiana Senate.

The state legislature passed a resolution written by Hurley Goodall which praised Carter for the freeing of the fifty-two hostages held during the Iran hostage crisis.

Hurley Goodall voted against legislation to lower the minimum age to serve as a state representative from twenty-one to eighteen.

Hurley Goodall supported removing the sales tax on residential utilities.

In 1982, Goodall sponsored legislation alongside Representatives B Patrick Bauer and Stan Jones to increase taxes to prevent a $452.1 million budget deficit.

Hurley Goodall supported repealing the ban on lotteries in the Constitution of Indiana and supported legislation to allow residents of Gary, Indiana, to hold a referendum on whether or not to legalize casino gambling.

Hurley Goodall stated that success for black people in society relied on black churches or organized labor and that he thought "every black member of the Muncie City Council has come from organized labor".

Hurley Goodall accused the Republicans of reducing the voting power of minorities during redistricting after the 1980 census.

Hurley Goodall criticized their plan for splitting minorities into different congressional districts such as splitting Anderson and Muncie from being together in the 10th congressional district into the 2nd and 6th congressional districts.

Hurley Goodall was critical of the creation of multi-member districts with three representatives being elected stating that those districts combined two white suburban areas with one minority urban area.

Hurley Goodall introduced legislation to implement a none of the above on general election ballots for all offices.

Hurley Goodall sponsored legislation written by Representative Marc Carmichael which would allow for same-day voter registration.

Hurley Goodall introduced legislation targeting the Ku Klux Klan which would have made acting with malice against people based on race, color, or religion while disguised or burning a cross a class D felony with a punishment up to four years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Hurley Goodall sponsored legislation to guarantee the First Amendent rights for student newspapers and yearbooks in 1991, after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a case that an administrator's censorship of a student publication did not violate the student's freedom of speech.