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 ARTHUR P. GORMAN

, of Laurel, was born in Howard County, Md., March 11, 1839; attended the public schools in his native county for a brief period; in 1852 was appointed page in the Senate of the United States, and continued in the service of the Senate until 1866, at which time he was postmaster; on the 1st of September, 1866, he was removed from his position and immediately appointed collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Maryland, which office he held until the incoming of the Grant administration in 1869; in June, 1869, he was appointed a director in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and in November was elected a member of the house of delegates of the Maryland legislature as a Democrat; he was reëlected in 1871, then elected speaker of the house of delegates at the ensuing session; in June, 1872, he was elected president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; in 1875 he was elected to represent Howard County in the Maryland State senate, and was reëlected in November, 1879, for a term of four years; was elected in January, 1880, to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed William Pinkney Whyte; took his seat March 4, 1881, and was reëlected in 1886 and in 1892. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.