biography
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| (1740–99)
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| biography:
| US governor, born near Abingdon, Maryland, USA. An Annapolis lawyer and Maryland legislator, he led opposition to the British poll tax in 1774. In the Continental Congress (1774–9), he signed the Declaration of Independence and paid for troops with his own money. As Maryland's governor (1782–5), he built Washington College there, later becoming a federal district judge (1789–99). |
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