Robert Henry Goldsborough

Robert Henry Goldsborough (born January 4, 1779 in Easton , Talbot County , Maryland , † October 5, 1836 ibid) was an American politician who represented the state of Maryland in the US Senate .

Robert Henry Goldsborough was born on Myrtle Grove , his family's country estate near Easton. His father Robert Goldsborough was a member of the Continental Congress . After receiving private tuition as a boy, he attended St. John's College in Annapolis , where he graduated in 1795. He then worked in agriculture, took on his first political mandate as a member of the Maryland House of Representatives in 1804 and commanded a militia force during the British-American War .

In May 1813 Goldsborough was first elected to the US Senate for the Federalist Party . There he took the seat that had remained vacant since March of that year after the Maryland State Legislature failed to agree on a successor to Philip Reed . He remained in Congress until March 3, 1819 , where he served as chairman of the Committee on Claims .

After his first term, Goldsborough went back to his agricultural obligations; in 1817 he had also founded the Easton Gazette, a newspaper in his home town. In 1825 he sat again in the House of Representatives of his state before he finally entered the US Senate for the second time on January 13, 1835. This time he represented the interests of the National Republican Party and succeeded the resigned Ezekiel F. Chambers ; a little later he joined the Whigs . Robert Goldsborough died on Myrtle Grove the following year .

His great-grandson Winder Laird Henry represented Maryland in the US House of Representatives between 1894 and 1895 .

Web links

• Robert Henry Goldsborough in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• The Political Graveyard