PoliticalGraveyard.com
U.S. District Court in Maryland
U.S. District Judges for Maryland, 1789-2017(may beincomplete!)
WilliamPaca 1789-99JamesWinchester 1799-1806JamesHouston 1806-19TheodorickBland 1819-24UptonS. Heath 1836-52JohnGlenn 1852-53ThomasJohn Morris 1879-1912JohnCarter Rose 1910-22MorrisAmes Soper 1923-31WilliamCaldwell Coleman 1927-55WilliamCalvin Chesnut 1931-53RoszelCathcart Thomsen 1954-71RobertDorsey Watkins 1955-71HarrisonL. Winter 1961-66FrankAlbert Kaufman 1966-86AlexanderHarvey II 1966-91JamesRogers Miller, Jr. 1970-86C.Stanley Blair 1971-80HerbertFrazier Murray 1971-88JosephH. Young 1971-87JosephClemens Howard 1979-91NormanPark Ramsey 1980-91WalterE. Black, Jr. 1982-94JohnRaymond Hargrove, Sr. 1984-94J.Frederick Motz 1985-2010FredericN. Smalkin 1986-2003DeborahK. Chasanow 1993-2014PeterJo Messitte 1993-2008CatherineC. Blake 1995-AndreMaurice Davis 1995-2009JamesKelleher Bredar 2010-TheodoreD. Chuang 2014-GeorgeJarrod Hazel 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
| "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of apolitical graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 | ![]() |
| The Political Graveyardis a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260politicians, living and dead. | ||
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| Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained byLawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address isThe Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted byHDLmi.com. —The Political Graveyard opened onJuly 1, 1996; the last full revision was done onFebruary 17, 2025. | ||