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William Paca (1740-1799)

Artist: John Beale Bordley, 1836
Medium: Oil on canvas
MSA SC 1545-1117
William Paca

Annapolis City Council, 1766; Lower House, 1768-1774, 1786-1787; Maryland Constitutional Conventions, Anne Arundel County, 1774-1776; Delegate, Continental Congress, June 1774-December 1780; Signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Maryland Senate, 1777, 1778-1780; Alderman, Annapolis, 1781; Governor of Maryland, 1782-1785; (anti-Federalist)


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Portraits and statues in the Senate Chamber

William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles of Carrollton
Samuel Chase
Edwin Warfield
Mike Miller