Thomas Alan Goldsborough

Thomas Alan Goldsborough ( born September 16, 1877 in Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, † June 16 1951 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1921 and 1939 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge.

Career

Thomas Goldsborough was a descendant of Robert Goldsborough (1733-1788), a delegate to the Continental Congress, and Congressman and Governor Charles Goldsborough ( 1765-1834 ). He attended the common schools and the Washington College in Chestertown. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his 1901 was admitted to the bar he began in Denton to work in this profession. Between 1904 and 1908 he was a prosecutor in Caroline County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1920 Goldsborough was elected in the first district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William Noble Andrews on March 4, 1921. After nine elections he could remain until his resignation on April 5, 1939 at the Congress. Between 1932 and 1939 he also belonged to the governing body of the Smithsonian Institution. During his time in Congress, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 there.

Thomas Gold boroughs resignation came after he had been appointed judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia. A post he held until his death on June 16, 1951 in the German capital. He was buried in Denton.