Theodore W. Goldin (July 25, 1858 – February 15, 1935) served in the United States Army during the American Indian Wars.

[3] In 1904, Goldin sided with the stalwarts in the Republican Party of Wisconsin: a conservative faction led by Senator John Coit Spooner that was opposed to Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr., running for a third term.

[8][9] But when "Fighting Bob" La Follette ended up winning re-election that fall, Goldin's political career in Wisconsin was finished.

He wandered around the southwestern United States, landing in Oklahoma City in 1911, Colorado and El Paso, Texas, in 1912.

Goldin also campaigned to be awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in the Battle of Little Big Horn, writing to Captain Frederick Benteen and speaking to Lieutenant Luther Hare in person.

In 1896 Joseph Doe, a fellow Wisconsin politician and Mason, and also Assistant Secretary of War, found that there was sufficient evidence for approval of a Medal of Honor for Goldin.

The height of embellishment is found in a chapter in the book Northwestern fights and fighters by Cyrus Townsend Brady.

[11] In 1924, a Missouri congressman helped Goldin obtain a pension as a Medal of Honor recipient through a special act of Congress.

His award citation for his actions in the Battle of Little Big Horn reads: One of a party of volunteers who, under a heavy fire from the Indians, went for and brought water to the wounded.