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Goldsborough, Robert

physician, congressman, was born in 1733, in Cambridge, Md. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775. He died Dec. 31, 1788, in Cambridge, Md.

GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT HENRY, United States senator, was born in 1780, in New Easton, Md. He was elected United States senator as an anti-Jackson democrat, and served from 1813 till 1819.

He was again elected as a whig without opposition, to fill a vacancy, and served from 1835 till his death. He died Oct. 5, 1836, in New Easton, Md.

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