Joseph A. Goulden

Joseph A. Goulden

Joseph Aloysius Goulden (born August 1, 1844 in Littlestown , Pennsylvania , † May 3, 1915 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1903 and 1911 and between 1913 and 1915 .

Career

Joseph Aloysius Goulden was born in Littlestown, Adams County , about two years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . He attended community schools. During the Civil War , Goulden served in the marine infantry in 1864 and 1865 . He was a member of the Board of Managers of the state reformatory in Morganza, Pennsylvania. Then he moved to New York City . He served as a commissioner and trustee in public schools for ten years and then sat on the Board of Trustees for Soldiers' Home in Bath . He was Secretary and a member of the New York City Commission that built the Soldiers ' and Sailors' Monument on Riverside Drive . Politically, Goulden belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1902 congressional elections for the 58th Congress , Goulden was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 18th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded John H. Ketcham on March 4, 1903 . He was re-elected three times in a row, but decided not to run again in 1910 and retired after the March 3, 1911 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he went into insurance business in New York City.

In 1912 he ran in the 23rd constituency of New York for the 63rd Congress and succeeded Henry S. De Forest after a successful election on March 4, 1913 . He was re-elected once, but died before the end of his term on May 3, 1915 in Philadelphia. His body was then on the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Taneytown ( Maryland buried).

Web links

• Joseph A. Goulden in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph A. Goulden in the database of Find a Grave (English)