Maryland State Archives

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Early in his administration, Governor and Mrs. Goldsborough received two important visitors to Government House. On March 12, 1912, they entertained Governor Woodrow Wilson, then governor of New Jersey and future president of the United States, at dinner following Wilson's address to the Maryland legislature. Three months later, on June 7, President William Howard Taft called on Governor Goldsborough at Government House after presenting diplomas to the graduating midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. Escorted from the Naval Academy to the residence by Troop A of the Maryland National Guard, the president, as his own request, paid his respects to the governor before departing by train for Washington. It was the first presidential to a Maryland governor's residence since President Andrew Johnson was entertained at Jennings House by Governor Thomas Swann in 1867.