Joseph A. Goulden

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Joseph Aloysius Goulden (August 1, 1844 – May 3, 1915) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, Goulden attended the common schools. He served in the Marine Corps in 1864 and 1865. He served as member of the board of managers at the State reformatory, Morganza, Pennsylvania, after which he moved to New York City. He served as commissioner and trustee of public schools for ten years, and also served as member of the board of trustees of the soldiers' home, Bath, New York. He was secretary and member of the New York City commission that erected the soldiers' and sailors' monument on Riverside Drive.

Goulden was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911). He declined to be a candidate for reelection. He engaged in the insurance business in New York City.

Goulden was elected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1915. He was interred in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Taneytown, Maryland.

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• Joseph A. Goulden at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress