Thomas Swann was an American lawyer and politician who also was President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as it completed track to Wheeling and gained access to the Ohio River Valley. Initially a Know-Nothing,and later a Democrat,Swann served as the 19th Mayor of Baltimore (1856–1860),later as the 33rd Governor of Maryland (1866–1869),and subsequently as U.S. Representative ("Congressman") from Maryland's 3rd congressional district and then 4th congressional district (1869–1879),representing the Baltimore area.
James N. Mathias Jr. is an American politician from Ocean City,Maryland. Mathias served in the Maryland State Senate from 2011 until 2019,was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2006 to 2010,and served as mayor of Ocean City from 1996 until 2006.
John A. Giannetti Jr. is an American politician and former attorney from Maryland. As a Democrat,Giannetti was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1998 for District 13B and served from 1999 to 2003. In 2002 he was elected into the State Senate for District 21,which covers parts of Anne Arundel County and Prince George's County. He was defeated in the 2006 Democratic primary and general elections by former member of the Maryland House of Delegates and U.S. Ambassador to Romania James Rosapepe.
John W. Derr is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland Senate representing District 3 from 1983 to 1999.
Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Democratic state senator in Maryland,United States.
Cypriano Ferrandini was a barber from Corsica who emigrated to the United States,and established himself as the long-time barber and hairdresser in the basement of Barnum's Hotel,in Baltimore,Maryland. There he practiced his trade from the mid-1850s to his retirement long after the close of the Civil War. He was accused,but never indicted for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln on February 23,1861,and while once caught in a secessionist dragnet in 1862,was never prosecuted for his pro-Southern convictions and membership in the Knights of the Golden Circle.
Alfred W. Redmer Jr. was a Maryland Insurance Commissioner and was the Republican nominee for County Executive of Baltimore County,Maryland in 2018. He formerly served as a legislator in the Maryland House of Delegates,representing District 8 in Baltimore County,prior to being appointed Maryland Insurance Commissioner in 2003.
Spencer Cone Jones,was the President of the Maryland State Senate,Mayor of Rockville,Maryland and Maryland State Treasurer.
St. Anne's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Church Circle,Annapolis. The first church in Annapolis,it was founded in 1692 to serve as the parish church for the newly created Middle Neck Parish,one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland. It remains in use by the Parish of St. Anne,part of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
The Niles and Sutherland Report,officially the Report of Captain Emory H. Niles and Mr. Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. on Trip of Investigation Through Eastern Turkish Vilayets,was commissioned by the United States Congress under the leadership of James L. Barton,Chairman of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East (ACRNE).
John Frank Raley Jr. was a Maryland politician and an advocate for education,economic development and protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Walter Dulany was a politician in Colonial Maryland,who was mayor of Annapolis from 1766 to 1767. His family house and land at Windmill Point later became the location for the United States Naval Academy.
Thomas Cromwell Corner (1865–1938) was a portrait artist from Baltimore,Maryland,USA and founding member of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Frederick County,Maryland has a half-day bank holiday every November 23 to commemorate Repudiation Day. The Maryland Manual states on page 329 that the General Assembly of 1894 made November 23 a bank half-holiday in Frederick County,under the title of "Repudiation Day," in commemoration of the repudiation of the Stamp Act in 1765.
St. Mary's College of Maryland,originally known as St. Mary's Female Seminary,began in 1840 as a secular state-sponsored boarding school for women. Since 1966 it has been a four-year public liberal arts college and in 1992 it became a designated public honors college. One of only two in the nation to hold such a distinction at the time.
William Henry Tayloe was an American plantation owner,enslaver,horse breeder,businessowner,and land speculator during the first half of the 19th century. He inherited a vast estate from his father and expanded his holdings,pioneering new territory in the Canebrake region of Alabama.
The Mennonites in Maryland maintain a small population dating back over a century. The majority of Maryland's Mennonites live in Southern Maryland or on the Eastern Shore,while smaller Mennonite communities exist in Grantsville,Baltimore,Howard County,and elsewhere scattered throughout the state.
Grace Snively was a community activist in the state of Maryland. Since the 1950s,she campaigned to improve gynaecological health with a focus on early cancer detection in segregated areas. She also promoted civil rights and voter registration and was involved in various charitable organisations. Having served as a chief election judge in Washington County,Maryland,she was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.
St.Leger Codd was a militia officer,lawyer,planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia and the Colony of Maryland who sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly.
