Goldsborough, Charles, 1765-1834
Charles Goldsborough was born on July 15, 1765 in Dorchester County, Maryland to Charles Goldsborough and Anna Maria Tilghman. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1784 and studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1790. He held several local political offices and was elected to the Maryland State Senate from 1791 to 1795, then from 1799 to 1801. In 1805, Goldsborough was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth U.S. Congress and served in the next five until March of 1817. He later served as Governor of Maryland in 1819. In 1820, he retired from politics and public life and remained on his estate near Cambridge. Charles Goldsborough married Elizabeth Goldsborough on September 22, 1793 and they had two daughters together. He married his second wife, Sarah Yerbury, on May 22, 1804, and they had fifteen children together. Charles Goldsborough died on December 13, 1834.