Arthur Pue Gorman [SEP] position held
Arthur Pue Gorman
Arthur Pue Gorman (March 11, 1839June 4, 1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1881 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1906. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1869 to 1875, and the Maryland State Senate to 1881. He was a prominent leader of the Bourbon Democrat faction in the Democratic Party and later served as a member of the Mills Commission which investigated the origins of the sport of baseball and established its inventor.
Early life and career
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In 1850, William T. Hamilton and General Edward Hammond were called upon to give 11-year old Arthur Pue a page position in Washington D.C. Gorman and his younger son William Henry Gorman (1843–1915) were the proprietors of several quarries in Laurel that supplied granite for the U.S. Treasury Building and the United States Capitol, and bridges for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Gorman was captured on a business trip south in 1860 and sent to Libby Prison. He died shortly after his release.
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