United States Senate
Goldsborough tried to win the Republican nomination for the class I U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 1916, but was defeated in the Republican primary by Joseph I. France. He left politics afterwards and resumed his law practice in Cambridge, and also became president of the National Union Bank.
When Republican Herbert Hoover was elected President of the U.S., Goldsborough decided to take this opportunity to again try for the same senate seat in Maryland. He was elected as to the United States Senate in the election of 1928, defeating incumbent William Cabell Bruce.
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