Elected Under the Amended Constitution of 1838 by the People
for Three Years.

William Grason.................................................... Queen Anne's County........................1838
Francis Thomas..................................................Frederick County....................................l841
Thomas G. Pratt................................................ Prince George's County.................1844
Philip F. Thomas............................................... Talbot. County......................................1847
Enoch Louis Lowe............................................ Frederick County....................................1850.

Elected Under the Constitution of 1851 by the People for Four Years.

Thomas Watkins Ligon................................ Howard County.......................................1853
Thomas Holliday Hicks...............................Dorchester County ..............................1857
Augustus W. Bradford................................Baltimore County.................................1861.

Elected Under the Constitution of 1864 by the People for Four Years
Thomas Swann..............................................Baltimore City...........................................1865
Elected Under the Constitution of 1867 by the People for Four Years.

*Oden Bowie.............................................................Prince George's County.................1869
William Pinkney Whyte............................. Baltimore City.........................................1872
+James Black Groome...................................Cecil County............................. .......... 1874
John Lee Carroll................................................Howard County........................................1876
William T. Hamilton......................................Washington County...............................1880
Robert M. McLane............................................Baltimore City..........................................1884
++Henry Lloyd.........................................................Dorchester County.................................1885
Elihu E. Jackson................................................Wicomico County....................................1888
Frank Brown,....................................................... Carroll County..........................................1892
Lloyd Lowndes......................................................Allegany County....................................1896
John Walter Smith..........................................Worcester County.................................1900
Edwin Warfield.....................................................Howard County.......................................1904
Austin L. Crothers............................................. Cecil County...............................................1908
Phillips Lee Goldsborough....................... Dorchester County.................................1912
Emerson C. Harrington..............................Dorchester County.................................1916
Albert C. Ritchie................................................Baltimore City..........................................1920
§Harry W. Nice.................................................Baltimore City..........................................1935
Herbert R. O'Conor.........................................Baltimore City.......................................... 1939
Wm. Preston Lane, Jr.................................Washington County..............................1947.

RESULTS OF GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS, 1871-1946.

1871—William Pinkney Whyte (D).............Baltimore City.....................73,958
Jacob Tome (R) ..............................................Cecil County...........................58,838.

Whyte's Plurality, 15,120.

1875—John Lee Carroll (D).................................Howard County.....................85,454
J. Morrison Harris (R)............................ Baltimore City.....................72,530.

Carroll's Plurality, 12,924.

1879—William T. Hamilton (D)......................Washington County........ 90,771
James A. Gary (R)......................................Baltimore City.....................68,609.

Hamilton's Plurality, 22,162.

1883—Robert M. McLane (D)...........................Baltimore City.....................92,694
Hart B. Holton (R)...................................Baltimore County...............80,707
McLane's Plurality, 11,987.

* Served three years by special provision of the Constitution.
+ Became Governor on the resignation of Governor Whyte, March 1874.
++Became Governor on the resignation of Governor McLane, March 1885.
§ Due to Constitutional Amendment of 1922, providing for quadrennial elections,
the Governor elected in 1923 served three years. Thereafter gubernatorial terms
began in odd years..