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James L. Goddard (April 24, 1923 – December 18, 2009) was an American physician who served as the Director of the Communicable Disease Center from 1962 to 1966 and as Commissioner of Food and Drugs from 1966 to 1968. He died of a brain hemorrhage on December 18, 2009, in Laguna Woods, California at age 86.