James Black Groome (4 April 1838-5 October 1893) was the Democratic Governor of Maryland from 4 March 1874 to 12 January 1876 (succeeding William Pinkney Whyte and preceding John Lee Carroll) and a US Senator from 4 March 1879 to 4 March 1885 (succeeding George R. Dennis and preceding Ephraim King Wilson II).
Biography[]
James Black Groome was born in Elkton, Maryland in 1838, and he became a lawyer in 1861 and served in the House of Delegates from 1872 to 1874, as Governor from 1874 to 1876, and as a US Senator from 1879 to 1885. He came from the conservative wing of his party, and he served as a customs collector in Baltimore from 1889 to 1893, when he died.