[3] While working as a clerk for the United States Navy, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1886, commencing practice in Cambridge, Maryland soon thereafter.

Goldsborough won in part due to the support of African Americans, with the disenfranchising Digges Amendment being concurrently defeated.

[4] Goldsborough's tenure as governor achieved education reform, including the appointment of school boards and teacher certification.

When Republican Herbert Hoover was elected President of the United States, Goldsborough again sought the same senate seat in Maryland.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Goldsborough to the director's board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1935.