Thomas Alan Goldsborough

Background

Goldsborough, Thomas Alan was born on September 16, 1877 in at Greensboro, Maryland, United States.

Education

Born in Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, Goldsborough attended the public schools and the local academy at Greensboro. In 1901, he graduated with an Bachelor of Laws from the law department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in Denton, Maryland.

Career

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Washington College of Chestertown, Maryland, in 1899. He served as prosecuting attorney for Caroline County, Maryland, from 1904 to 1908, returning to private practice from 1908 to 1921. Goldsborough was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress, beginning his Congressional service on March 4, 1921.

He was reelected to the nine succeeding Congresses.

He also served as regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 1932-1939. On January 20, 1939, Goldsborough was nominated by President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, created by 52 Statistics

584. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 16, 1939, and received his commission on February 23, 1939.

He thereafter resigned his seat in Congress on April 5, 1939 to assume his judicial office. Goldsborough served in that capacity until his death, in 1951, in Washington, District of Columbia

He is interred in Denton Cemetery of Denton, Maryland. Thomas was great-great-great-grandson of and great-grandson of Charles Goldsborough.

Goldsboro, Maryland, is named after the family.

Some sources cr him with introducing the phrase pushing on a string—a metaphor for the difficulty experienced by the Federal Reserve in trying to end an economic contraction—in a 1935 hearing.

Achievements

• Thomas Alan Goldsborough has been listed as a reputable judge by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member 67th to 76th Congresses (1921-1941), 1st Maryland.

Connections

Married Laura Hall, June 16, 1909. Children: Martha Winder, Thomas Alan, Eliza Hall, George Hall.

Spouse:

Laura Hall

child:

George Hall Goldsborough

child:

Martha Winder Goldsborough

child:

Eliza Hall Goldsborough

child:

Thomas Alan Goldsborough