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William Smallwood (1732-1792)

Artist: Charles Willson Peale, 1823
Medium: Oil on canvas
MSA SC 1545-1054

william smallwoodMilitary service:
Brigadier general, commissioned October 1776; Major general, commissioned September 17807

Positions held:
Lower House, 1761-1763, 1765-1766, 1768-1771, 1773-1774; Justice, Charles County, 1762, 1770-1773; Governor of Maryland, 1785-1788


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Portraits AND Exhibits in the Senate Committee Room

Joshua Barney
Jeremiah T. Chase
Sir Robert Eden
Mordecai Gist
Anne Catherine Hoof Green
John Hanson
William Paca
George Plater
Charles Willson Peale
John Eager Howard
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Thomas Johnson, Jr.
James McHenry
William Smallwood
Samuel Smith
John H. Stone
Otho H. Williams


Washington, Lafayette and Tilghman at Yorktown
tilghmans swords
General George Washington resigning his military commission before Congress,     
          December 23, 1783