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William Pinkney Whyte (1824-1908)
MSA SC 3520-1466

Governor of Maryland 1872-1874 (Democrat)

Notes

1.  Frank F. White, Jr.  The Governors of Maryland 1770-1970.  Annapolis:  The Hall of Records Commission, 179.

2.  Ibid.

3.  Ibid.

4.   Dumas Malone and Allen Johnson, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, vol. X. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), 179.

5.  Gerson G. Eisenberg, Marylanders Who Served the Nation:  A Biographical Dictionary of Federal Officials from Maryland (Annapolis:  Maryland State Archives, 1992), 230.

6.  White, The Governors of Maryland, 179.  White does not record the LL.D. from the University of Maryland; this information is listed in Who Was Who In America, vol. 1, 1897-1942 (Chicago:  The A.N. Marquis Company, 1943), 1342 and The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and the District of Columbia (Baltimore:  National Biographical Publishing Co., 1879), 652-653.

7.  Eisenberg, Marylanders, 230.

8.  White, The Governors of Maryland, 179.

9.  Ibid., 179-181.  J.D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties (Baltimore:  Regional Publishing Company, 1967), 288-9. Official Congressional Directory, 59th Congress, Second Session, 1st ed. (Washington:  Government Printing Office, 1906), 46-47.  The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland, 652-653.

10.  White, The Governors of Maryland, 183.

11.  Ibid.

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