Goldsmith served in the George W. Bush Administration, but resigned, in 2004, primarily because he disagreed with the Administration's broad use of executive power.
Before coming to Harvard, Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003.
He served as Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University from 1948 to 1969.
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Barbara Holper was the daughter of Hieronymus Holper, under whom Albrecht the Elder served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith.
Dawes grew out of unlikely soil: The Goldsmith boys are the sons of musician Lenny Goldsmith, who served in the '70s as singer for Bay Area funksters Tower of Power.
On the strength of it he became a ready-made public figure: given a professorial chair at Birmingham, where he founded a cultural studies centre, invited to testify at the Chatterley trial, following the Unesco job with the wardenship of Goldsmith's College, and serving on practically every arts world public body worth the name.
Mr. Goldsmith, 64, who split his time between New York and Washington over the last year, had previously served as a two-term mayor of Indianapolis in the 1990s.
Frank Goldsmith served as Conservative MP for Stowmarket from 1910-18, while Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, sat as Unionist MP for County Down from 1931-45.
Goldsmith, the son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith and brother of Jemima Khan, would be viewed as a substantial threat to Labour, which had been hoping to walk back into City Hall after two terms served by Boris Johnson.
