John Millard Tawes (8 April 1894-25 June 1979) was the Democratic Governor of Maryland from 14 January 1959 to 25 January 1967, succeeding Theodore McKeldin and preceding Spiro Agnew.
Biography[]
John Millard Tawes was born in Crisfield, Maryland in 1894, and he worked in the shipbuilding, baking, and banking industries before serving as Somerset County Clerk of the Court from 1930 to 1938, as Comptroller of Maryland from 1939 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1959, as Governor from 1959 to 1967, and as Treasurer from 1973 to 1975. Tawes supported infrastructural improvements, environmentalism, anti-discriminatory hiring practices, and the establishment of community colleges, and he died in 1979.