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Edwin Warfield

Edwin Warfield (7 May 1848-31 March 1920) was the Democratic Governor of Maryland from 13 January 1904 to 3 January 1908, succeeding John Walter Smith and preceding Austin Lane Crothers.

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Edwin Warfield was born in Daisy, Howard County, Maryland in 1848, a third cousin of Wallis Simpson. He worked as a professor of agriculture, founded The Daily Record newspaper, and served as Register of Wills for Howard County from 1874 to 1881, in the State Senate from 1882 to 1888, as editor of the Ellicott City Times from 1882 to 1886, as Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore from 1885 to 1890, as president of the Fidelity and Deposit Company from 1890 to 1920, and as Governor of Maryland from 1904 to 1908. Warfield supported limited Black suffrage and the direct election of US Senators, and he died in 1920.

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