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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandThomas Watkins LIGON
(1810-1881)
LIGON, Thomas Watkins, a
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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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