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Senate Committee Room

William Paca (1740-1799)

Charles Willson Peale, 1823
Medium: Oil on canvas
MSA SC 1545-1056

William Paca Delegate, Continental Congress, June 1774-December 1780;Signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776;Maryland Senate, 1777, 1778-1780;Governor of Maryland, 1782-1785(anti-Federalist)

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