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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandEdward LLOYD
(1779-1834)
Senate Years of Service:
1819-1826Party: Democratic Republican;
Crawford Republican; JacksonianLLOYD, Edward, (son of
Edward Lloyd [1744-1796]), a Representative and a Senator from
Maryland; born at “Wye House,” Talbot County, Md., July
22, 1779; educated by private tutors; member, State house of
delegates 1800-1805; elected to the Ninth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph H. Nicholson; reelected
to the Tenth Congress and served from December 3, 1806, to March 3,
1809; Governor of Maryland 1809-1811; commissioned lieutenant
colonel of the Ninth Regiment of Maryland Militia; member, State
senate 1811-1815; elected as a Democratic Republican (later
Crawford Republican, then Jacksonian) to the United States Senate
in 1819; reelected in 1825 and served from March 4, 1819, until his
resignation on January 14, 1826; chairman, Committee on the
District of Columbia (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); member
and president, State senate 1826-1831; died in Annapolis, Md., June
2, 1834; interment in the family burying ground at “Wye
House” plantation, near Easton, Md.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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