Description
This unique historical and genealogical resource draws at the extraordinarily intact legislative, judicial, spiritual, and personal records of members of the primary Maryland legislature. The 2-volume set accommodates profiles of just about fifteen hundred men who served within the state’s legislature within the first 150 years after Maryland’s founding.
The major private and non-private aspects of every legislator’s career are quickly discernible: circle of relatives background, marriage, children, social status, spiritual affiliation, occupation, other offices held, and military service. Many entries include a brief summary of a legislator’s stance on private and non-private issues. A final category, wealth at death, inventories the legislator’s estate and notes any significant changes in wealth between first election and death.