- Thomas Alan Goldsborough
Thomas Alan Goldsborough (
September 16 ,1877 -June 16 ,1951 ) was a U.S.jurist and politician.Goldsborough was born in
Greensboro, Maryland . He attended the public schools and the local academy at Greensboro, later graduating fromWashington College ofChestertown, Maryland , in 1899. In 1901, he graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Maryland at Baltimore , was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice inDenton, Maryland . He served as prosecuting attorney forCaroline County, Maryland , from 1904 to 1908. He also served as regent of theSmithsonian Institution from 1932-1939.Goldsborough was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the nine succeeding Congresses. He served from
March 4 ,1921 , toApril 5 ,1939 , when he resigned, having been appointed an associate justice of theDistrict Court of the United States for the District of Columbia . He served in that position until his death inWashington, DC , and is interred in Denton Cemetery ofDenton, Maryland .Thomas was great-great-great-grandson of
Robert Goldsborough and great-grandson ofCharles Goldsborough .Goldsboro, Maryland , is named after the family.Some sources credit 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.Sandilans, Roger G. (2001), "The New Deal and 'domesticated' Keynesianism in America, in cite book|title=Economist with a Public Purpose: Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith|author=John Kenneth Galbraith and Michael Keaney|publisher=Routledge|id=ISBN 0415212928|year=2001, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3EMTJai7E6kC&pg=PA231&as_brr=3&ei=4hkUSLLrJ5DAygTi_p2DCA&sig=pqCxC9VelIIDWmXrReNZPlbK2DQ p. 231] ] cite book|title=A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States|author=John Harold Wood|id=ISBN 0521850134|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Jc_c_JAqrjoC&pg=PA231&as_brr=3&ei=ChcUSM34DZDAygTi_p2DCA&sig=GnhANPT7iUDoUzafP5Seq-DHk6s p. 231] ; it cites U. S. Congress House Banking Currency Committee, Hearings, "Hearings, Banking Act of 1935," March 18, 1935, p. 377.]References
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