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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=James Harper Godman
|image=James Harper Godman.JPG
|order=11th
|office=Ohio State Auditor
|term_start=January 11, 1864
|term_end=January 8, 1872
|governor=John Brough
Charles Anderson
Jacob Dolson Cox
Rutherford B. Hayes
|preceded=Oviatt Cole
|succeeded=James Williams
|party=Republican
|birth_date={{birth date|1808|10|19}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1891|10|4|1808|10|19}}
|birth_place=Berkeley County, Virginia
|death_place=Marion, Ohio
|restingplace=Marion Cemetery
|allegiance=United States
|branch=Union Army
|rank= Colonel
Bvt. Brigadier General
|commands= 4th Ohio Infantry
|serviceyears=April 25, 1861-July 28, 1863
|battles= American Civil War

Battle of Fredericksburg

}}

James Harper Godman (October 19, 1808 – October 4, 1891) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate, and was Ohio State Auditor for eight years, (1864–1872). He was also a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War.

James H. Godman was born in Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and ended up in Marion, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar in 1828.^[1]

In 1835, Godman was elected to represent Marion and Crawford Counties in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 34th General Assembly,^[2] and won again in 1839 for the 38th General Assembly.^[3] In 1840 and 1841, he won election to the Ohio Senate for the 39th and 40th General Assemblies.^[4]

Godman enlisted April 26, 1861 as a Major in the Union Army during the American Civil War in the 4th Ohio Infantry, promoted to lieutenant colonel January 9, 1862, and to colonel November 29, 1862. He was severely wounded at Fredricksburg and honorably discharged July 28, 1863. March 13, 1865 he received the rank brevet brigadier general.^[5] He was elected as a Republican for State Auditor in 1863, and re-elected in 1867, serving eight years.^[1]

Godman died October 4, 1891, and is buried at Marion Cemetery.^[6]

Notes

1. ^¹Smith 1898 : 165
2. ^Ohio 1917 : 269
3. ^Ohio 1917 : 272
4. ^Ohio 1917 : 231
5. ^Reid 1895 : 967
6. ^{{findagrave|62387342}}

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{{cite book|ref=smith|title=History of the Republican Party in Ohio |editor-first=Joseph P |editor-last=Smith |year=1898 |volume=I |page= |publisher=the Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaAFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA165}}
{{cite book|ref=ohio1917|title=Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly |last=Ohio General Assembly |page= |year=1917 |publisher=State of Ohio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qesAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA269}}
{{cite book|ref=ohiowar|title=Ohio in the War Her Statesmen Generals and Soldiers |page=967 |first=Whitelaw |last=Reid |authorlink=Whitelaw Reid|publisher=The Robert Clarke Company |year=1895 |volume=1 |location=Cincinnati |chapter=James H. Godman| chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ94AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA967}}

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