GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND
FROM 1689-1776
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John Coode, 1689-1690
Leader of the Protestant Associators who
seized the government on August 1, 1689.
ROYAL GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND
Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691-1692
Appointed president of the Committee for
the Government of Maryland when Coode went to England.
Sir Lionel Copley, 1692-1693
Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693, 1694
Elected governor after the death of
Copley, but had served only a week or two when Sir Edmund Andros arrived in
Maryland to assume control of the government.
Sir Edmund Andros, 1693
Colonel Nicholas Greenberry,
1693-1694
Sir
Edmund Andros, 1694
Remained in Maryland about a week.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694
Appointed president of the council by
Andros.
Sir Francis Nicholson, 1694-1698/99
Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston,
1698/99-1702
Thomas Tench, 1702-1704
Appointed president of the council by
Blackiston.
Colonel John Seymour, 1704-1709
Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709-1714
Elected president of the council when
Colonel Francis Jenkins, who was senior member of the council and thus
entitled to succeed Seymour, failed to assert his right promptly.
John Hart, 1714-1715
Governors under
Restored Proprietary Government, 1715-1776
John Hart, 1715-1720
Continued to serve as governor after
control of the province was returned to Charles, 5th Lord Baltimore, a
professed Protestant.
Thomas Brooke, 1720
Became president of the council by virtue
of his seniority when Hart returned to England.
Charles Calvert, 1721-1727
Benedict Leonard
Calvert, 1727-1731
Samuel
Ogle, 1731-1732
Charles Calvert, 1732-1733
Samuel Ogle, 1733-1742
Thomas
Bladen, 1742-1746/47
Samuel
Ogle, 1746/47-1752
Benjamin Tasker,
1752-1753
Was President of His
Lordships Council and, upon the death of Samuel Ogle, became acting Governor
Horatio Sharpe, 1753-1769
Robert
Eden, 1769-1776
Eden was in England from
May to November 1774, during which time Richard Lee, president of the
council, governed the province. Lee also governed the province briefly in
1776 during the interval between Eden's departure and the assumption of the
government by the convention.
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