406 MARYLAND MANUAL

GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND AFTER 1777
Elected Under the Constitution of 1777 by the Legislature for One Year

1777.Thomas Johnson 1809.Edward Lloyd

1779.Thomas Sim Lee 1811.Robert Bowie

1782.William Paca 1812.Levin Winder

1785.William Smallwood 1816.Chas. Kidgely, of Hampton

1788.John Eager Howard 1819.Charles Goldsborough

1791.George Plater 1819.Samuel Sprigg

1792.James Brice* 1822.Samuel Stevens, Jr.
1792.Thomas Sim Lee 1826.Joseph Kent
1794.John H. Stone 1829.Daniel Martin

1797-^John Henry 1830.Thomas King Carroll

1798.Benjamin Ogle 1831.Daniel Martin
1801.John Francis Mercer 1831.George Howard }
1803.Robert Bowie 1833.James Thomas
1806.Robert Wright 1836.Thomas W. Veazey
1809.James Butcher +

* Became Governor upon the death of Governor Plater, February 1792.
t Governor for one month, May-June 1809, following the resignation of Governor
Wright and before the convening of a special session of the Legislature.
t Became Governor on the death of Governor Martin, July 1831.

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

William Grason.....................Queen Anne's County...................1839

Francis Thomas................Frederick County....................................l842

Thomas G. Pratt............................................ Prince George's County...1845

Philip F. Thomas......................Talbot County....................................1848

Enoch Louis Lowe..............Frederick County.................................1851

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

Thomas Watkins Ligon.......Howard County............................1854

Thomas Holliday Hicks.............................Dorchester County.................................l858

Augustus W. Bradford-............................Baltimore County...............................1862

Elected Under the Constitution of 1864 by the People for Four Years

Thomas Swann.................................Baltimore City..........................................1866

Elected Under the Constitution of 1867 by the People for Four Years

-Oden Bowie............................................................Prince George's County..................l869

William Pinkney Whyte........................ Baltimore City..........................................l872

•{•James Black Groome.............................Cecil County.........................................1874

John Lee Carroll.........................-Howard County-.................................1876

William T. Hamilton................................... Washington County..................1880

Robert M. McLane............... ...Baltimore City.........................1884

tHenry Lloyd..............................-Dorchester County...................1886

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..............1989

Wm. Preston Lane, Jr............Washington County...........1947

* Served three years by special provision of the Constitution.

+ Became Governor on the resignation of Governor Whyte, March 1874.

t Became Governor on the resignation of Governor McLane, March 1885.

§ Due to constitutional amendment ol 1922, providing for quadrennial elections,

the Governor elected in 1923 served three years. Thereafter gubernatorial terms

began in odd years.