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MARYLAND MANUAL 677

Elected by the People for Three Years Under the Constitution of 1776
as Amended in 1838

William Grason - Queen Anne's County 1839
Francis Thomas - Frederick County 1842
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 - - -1858
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 1869
William Pinkney Whyte - Baltimore City - - - 1872
James Black Groome 2 _ „ , Cecil County 1874
John Lee Carroll - - .Howard County - - . 1876
William T. Hamilton. - - - Washington County -1880
Robert M. McLane - - Baltimore City - 1884
Henry Lloyd(3)—-- - - - .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 (4) Baltimore City - 1920
Harry W. Nice - - - .Baltimore City - .1935
Herbert R. O'Conor Baltimore City - 1939
Wm. Preston Lane, Jr. - Washington County - 1947
Theodore R. McKeldin. Baltimore City - 1951
J. Millard Tawes . „ Somerset County 1969

GOVERNORS' COUNCILS, 1777-1838

The Constitution of 1776 (Art. XXVI) provided that both houses
of the Legislature elect by joint ballot five men to be "the Council
to the Governor." This was an advisory body of considerable in-
fluence. It was also provided that on the death, removal, or in-
capacity of the Governor the first named of the Council should become
Governor and proceed to the calling of a special session of the Legis-
lature for the election of a new Governor. The Council was abolished

i Served three years by special provision of the Constitution
' Became Governor on the resignation of Governor Whyte, March 1874

3 Became Governor on the resignation of Governor McLane March 1885

4 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.

 

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