Charles Goldsborough

Charles Goldsborough (* July 15, 1765 in Dorchester County, Maryland, † December 13, 1834 in Cambridge, Maryland ) was an American politician and 1805-1817 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and in 1819 Governor of the State of Maryland.

Career

Charles Goldsborough studied until 1787 at the University of Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1790 as a lawyer. Between 1791 and 1795 he was a member of the Senate of Maryland. In 1797 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. From 1805 to 1817 he represented his state in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1818 he was elected by the Maryland General Assembly as the new governor. Goldsborough completed only one term in office between 8 January 1819 and 20 December of the same year, which was uneventful. The reason for his deselection in 1819 was the political decline of his Federalist Party in those years. Even his candidacies in the years 1820 and 1821 were unsuccessful. Goldsborough the last governor of his party should remain in Maryland.

After the end of his term he retired to his estate near Cambridge. There he died in December 1834. Charles Goldsborough was married twice and had a total of 17 children. He was the great-grandfather of Thomas Alan Goldsborough, who was 1921-1931 deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives. Another great-grandson was Winder Laird Henry, who also was a deputy in Congress from 1894 to 1895.