Arthur Pue Gorman (11 March 1839-4 June 1906) was a Democratic US Senator from Maryland from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1899 (succeeding William Pinkney Whyte and preceding Louis E. McComas) and from 4 March 1903 to 4 June 1906 (succeeding George Wellington and preceding Whyte).
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Arthur Pue Gorman was born in Woodstock, Maryland in 1839, and he became a US Senate page at the age of 11 before becoming a Washington Nationals baseball player in 1859 and postmaster of Washington DC in 1866. Gorman went on to serve in the House of Delegates from 1869 to 1875, in the state senate from 1875 to 1881, and in the US Senate from 1881 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1906. Gorman was a leader of the conservative-liberal Bourbon Democrats, elected after "ward rounders" shot and wounded Black Republican voters at the Howard County polls. He was an avowed white supremacist, spearheading Democratic attempts to disenfranchise Black Republican voters in 1889. He died in 1906.