Robert Henry Goldsborough

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

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

In May 1813 Goldsborough was first elected to the Federalist Party in the U.S. Senate. There he took the seat that had been vacant since March of that year, after the state Legislature of Maryland is not on a successor to Philip Reed had to agree. He remained until March 3, 1819 in Congress, where he served among others as Chairman of the Committee on Claims.

After his first term Goldsborough first went back to his farming commitments; in 1817 he had also founded with the Easton Gazette a newspaper in his hometown. In 1825 he was back in the House of Representatives of his state, before he finally moved for the second time on January 13, 1835 in the U.S. Senate. This time, he represented the interests of the National Republican Party and followed the retiring Ezekiel F. Chambers; little later he joined the Whigs. Already in the following year died Robert Goldsborough to Myrtle Grove.

His great-grandson Winder Laird Henry represented Maryland 1894-1895 in the U.S. House of Representatives.