Date Created: 1972
Description: Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996) was the fifty-fifth governor of Maryland. He served from 1967-1969, before serving as Vice President of the United States.
Date Created: c. 1702
Description: The city of Annapolis, Maryland was named in 1694 for Princess Anne (1665-1714), then heiress to the throne of England and later Queen of England from 1702-1714. This portrait is a version of the first state portrait painted of Anne as Queen.
Date Created: 1976
Description: A. Gordon Boone was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates for January 1963 session.
Date Created: 1912
Description: Oden Bowie (1826-1894) was the thirty-fourth governor of Maryland. He served from 1869-1872, and was the first occupant of the current governor’s mansion—known as Government House.
Date Created: 1906
Description: Robert Bowie (1750-1818) was the eleventh governor of Maryland. He served from 1803-1806, and 1811-1812
Date Created: 1977
Description: John Hanson Briscoe (born 1934) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1973-1979.
Date Created: 1900
Description: Frank Brown (1846-1920) was the forty-second governor of Maryland. He served from 1892-1896.
Date Created: c.1910
Description: Cecil Calvert, the Second Baron of Baltimore received the Charter of the Colony of Maryland in 1632 from King Charles I after the death of his father George Calvert. Cecil never set foot in Maryland, but sent his brother Leonard to govern the province.
Date Created: c.1640
Description: Leonard Calvert was Maryland’s first colonial governor. He sailed to Maryland with the Ark and Dove in 1633 to found the colony, and served until his death in 1647.
Date Created: c. 1640
Description: Leonard Calvert was Maryland’s first colonial governor. He sailed to Maryland with the Ark and Dove in 1633 to found the colony, and served until his death in 1647.
Date Created: 1987
Description: Benjamin Cardin (born 1943) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1979-1986.
Date Created: 1905
Description: This bronze maquette depicts Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1872) Signer of the Declaration of Independence. This is a model of the full-size statue in the U.S. Capitol.
Date Created: 1834
Description: This portrait depicts Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1872) Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Date Created: 1975
Description: Daniel Carroll (1730-1796) served in the Maryland Senate from 1781-1790 and was the
Senate President, in 1783, 1785, 1787, 1788-1790.
Date Created: 1836
Description: This portrait depicts Samuel Chase (1741-1811) Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Date Created: 2000
Description: Thomas E. Conlon (1883-1943) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates in 1939, 1941, 1943.
Date Created: 1886
Description: Johann de Kalb was a German born baron who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Camden while leading troops from Maryland and Delaware. The statue was erected in 1886 as a memorial.
Date Created: C. 1797
Description: Brass plaque screwed to the underside of the lift-top indicates desk was presented to the state of Maryland by Philip B. Perlman, Solicitor General of the United States in memory of his friends and son who died in action during World War II.
Date Created: 1914
Description: Sir Robert Eden (1741-1784) was the last royal governor of Maryland. He served from 1769-1776, but his effective authority ended with the formation of an extralegal convention in 1774. Eden sailed to England in 1776 but later returned to Annapolis.
Date Created: 2008
Description: Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. (born 1957) was the sixtieth governor of Maryland. He served from 2003-2007.
Date Created: 1974
Description: Emanuel Gorfine (D-BC 4); House of Deleates, 1931-1937; Speaker of the House, 1935-1937; State Senate, 1939-1941
Date Created: 1853
Description: The Founding of Maryland is thought to be an allegorical depiction of the Acts of Toleration. Written by Cecil Calvert and passed in 1649, the Acts provided for freedom of religious worship among Christians in Maryland.
Date Created: December 23, 1783
Description: George Washington's final draft of his resignation speech that he gave in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House on December 23, 1783. In response to instructions from Congress that he was expected to make formal remarks, Washington wrote this speech while he was in Annapolis. Upon...
Date Created: 2002
Description: Parris N. Glendening (born 1942) was the fifty-ninth governor of Maryland. He served from 1995-2003.
Date Created: 1922
Description: Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1865-1946) was the forty-seventh governor of Maryland. He served from 1912-1916.
Date Created: 1905
Description: John Hanson (1715-1783) served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. From 1781-1782 he served as “President of the United States in Congress Assembled” under the Articles of Confederation. This is a model of the full-scale statue in the U.S. Capitol.
Date Created: c.1900
Description: Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669) was married to King Charles I of England. Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, named his newly founded colony "Maryland" after Queen Henrietta Maria.
Date Created: 1867
Description: Thomas Holliday Hicks (1798-1865) was the thirty-first governor of Maryland. He served from 1858-1862, and was a staunch Unionist in the years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War.
Date Created: 1823
Description: This portrait depicts John Eager Howard (1752-1827) governor of Maryland 1788-1791
Date Created: 1986
Description: Harry R. Hughes (born 1926) was the fifty-seventh governor of Maryland. He served as from 1979-1987.
Date Created: c. 1914
Description: Elihu E. Jackson (1837-1907) was the forty-first governor of Maryland, He severed from 1888-1892.
Date Created: 2009
Description: Annapolis cabinetmaker John Shaw created a large flag to fly from the Dome of the State House while the Continental Congress was meeting in Annapolis from November 1783–August 1784. This flag is a carefully researched reproduction of the original flag.
Date Created: 1824
Description: This portrait depicts Thomas Johnson (1732-1819) governor of Maryland 1777-1779
Date Created: 1906
Description: Spencer C. Jones (1836-1915) served as president of the Maryland Senate, treasurer of Maryland, and clerk of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Jones also enlisted in a Confederate cavalry regiment during the Civil War.
Date Created: 19th Century
Description: Joseph Kent (1779-1837) was the nineteenth governor of Maryland. He served from 1829-1829.
Date Created: 1950
Description: William Preston Lane (1881-1864) was the fifty-second governor of Maryland. He served from 1947-1951, and oversaw the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Date Created: 1979
Description: Blair Lee III (1916-1985) served as acting governor of Maryland from 1977-1979.
Date Created: December 23, 1783
Description: A three-page letter from James McHenry to his future wife, Margaret (Peggy) Caldwell, describing George Washington's resignation of his commission of commander in chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783. McHenry was one of Maryland's delegates to the Continental Congress, and...
Date Created: January 16, 1784
Description: A four page letter from Mary (Molly) Ridout to Anne Tasker Ogle describing George Washington's resignation of his commission as commander in chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783. This is the only known account of the resignation ceremony that was authored by a woman. Ridout...
Date Created: 1972
Description: Thomas Hunter Lowe, (1928-1984) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1969-1973.
Date Created: 1975
Description: John Christopher Luber was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1951-1958.
Date Created: 1966
Description: Marvin Mandel (born 1943) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1964-1969 and the fifty-sixth governor of Maryland from 1969-1979.
Date Created: 1993
Description: Marvin Mandel (born 1920) was the fifty-sixth governor of Maryland. He served from 1969-1979.
Date Created: 1961
Description: Matthew Henson (1866-1955) of Maryland became the first African American to reach the North Pole, on April 6, 1909. He is recognized as a co-discover of the North Pole with US Navy Commander Robert Edwin Peary.
Date Created: 1961
Description: Theodore R. McKeldin (1900-1974) was the fifty-third governor of Maryland. He served from 1951-1959.
Date Created: 1858
Description: Robert M. McLane (1815-1898) was thirty-ninth governor of Maryland He severed from 1884-1885. He left the office to be become the United State Minister to France were he severed from 1885-1889.
Date Created: 1996
Description: R. Clayton Mitchell, (born 1936) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1987-1993.
Date Created: 1873
Description: Maryland landscape painter Hugh Bolton Jones spent most of his professional life in Baltimore City. Many of his works depict scenes of the Maryland landscape and he drew upon his training in the Hudson River School to depict scenes in his native state.
Date Created: 1873
Description: This landscape by Maryland artist Hugh Bolton Jones depicts an area in Carroll County, Maryland. Jones drew upon his training in the Hudson River School to depict scenes in his native state.
Date Created: 1938
Description: Harry W. Nice (1877-1941) was the fiftieth governor of Maryland. He served from 1935-1939.