Thomas Johnson 1777-1779
Thomas Sim Lee 1779-1782
William Paca 1782-1785
William Smallwood 1785-1788
John Eager Howard 1788-1791
George Plater[4] 1791-1792
James Brice (acting) 1792
Thomas Sim Lee 1792-1794
John H. Stone 1794-1797
John Henry Democratic Republican 1797-1798
Benjamin Ogle Federalist 1798-1801
John Francis Mercer Democratic Republican 1801-1803
Robert Bowie " " 1803-1806
Robert Wright[5] " " 1806-1808
James Butcher (acting) " " 1808-1809
Edward Lloyd Whig 1809-1811
Robert Bowie Democratic Republican 1811-1812
Levin Winder Federalist 1812-1815
Charles Ridgely " 1815-1818
Charles Goldsborough " 1818-1819
Samuel Sprigg Democratic Republican 1819-1822
Samuel Stevens, jun. " " 1822-1825
Joseph Kent " " 1825-1828
Daniel Martin Anti-Jackson 1828-1829
Thomas King Carroll Jackson Democrat 1829-1830
Daniel Martin Anti-Jackson 1830-1831
George Howard (acting) Whig 1831-1832
George Howard " 1832-1833
James Thomas " 1833-1835
Thomas W. Veazey " 1835-1838
William Grason Democrat 1838-1841
Francis Thomas " 1841-1844
Thomas G. Pratt Whig 1844-1847
Philip Francis Thomas Democrat 1847-1850
Enoch Louis Lowe " 1850-1853
Thomas Watkins Ligon " 1853-1857
Thomas Holliday Hicks American or
Know Nothing 1857-1861
Augustus W. Bradford Unionist 1861-1865
Thomas Swann " 1865-1868
Oden Bowie Democrat 1868-1872
William Pinkney Whyte[6] " 1872-1874
James Black Groome " 1874-1876
John Lee Carroll " 1876-1880
William T. Hamilton " 1880-1884
Robert M. McLane " 1884-1885
Henry Lloyd " 1885-1888
Elihu E. Jackson " 1888-1892
Frank Brown " 1892-1896
Lloyd Lowndes Republican 1896-1900
John Walter Smith Democrat 1900-1904
Edwin Warfield " 1904-1908
Austin L. Crothers " 1908-
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