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LIGON, Thomas Watkins (1810-1881)

Democrat of Maryland

3rd congressional district

Served in House 1845-1849

Total roll-call votes cast: 719

Biography

Representative from Maryland; born near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., May 10, 1810; attended Hampden-Sidney College and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1830 and 1831; studied law at Yale College; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and practiced in Baltimore 1835-1853 and in other places in Maryland; member of the State house of delegates in 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); resumed the practice of law; Governor of Maryland 1854-1858; retired from public life to ``Chatham,'' his country place, near Ellicott City, Howard County, Md., where he died January 12, 1881; interment in St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Md.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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