Levin Winder

Levin Winder
Levin Winder
14th Governor of Maryland
	In office; November 25, 1812 – January 2, 1816
Preceded by	Robert Bowie
Succeeded by	Charles Carnan Ridgely
Personal details
Born	September 4, 1757; Somerset County, Province of Maryland, British America
Died	July 1, 1819 (aged 61); Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place	First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Baltimore
Political party	Federalist
Spouse	Mary Staughton Sloss (1790–?)
Children	3
Parents	William Winder (1714/15–1792) (father); Esther (Gillis) Winder (mother);

Levin Winder (September 4, 1757 – July 1, 1819) in Baltimore, Maryland. During the Revolutionary War, he was appointed major of the 4th Maryland Regiment, finally attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel at war's end. After the war, he served with the Maryland Militia at the rank of brigadier general.

Winder served as the 14th governor of the state of Maryland in the United States from 1812 to 1816. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1789 to 1793. Winder was admitted as an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland.^[1]

References

^ Metcalf, Bryce (1938). Original Members and Other Officers Eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1938: With the Institution, Rules of Admission, and Lists of the Officers of the General and State Societies Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc. p. 342.

Frank F. White, Jr., The Governors of Maryland 1777-1970 (Annapolis: The Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 65-68.
Maryland State Archives

Political offices
Preceded by George Dent	Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates 1791–1793	Succeeded by John Parnham
Preceded by Tobias E. Stansbury	Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates 1808–1809	Succeeded by Tobias E. Stansbury
Preceded by Robert Bowie	Governor of Maryland 1812–1816	Succeeded by Charles Carnan Ridgely

v t e Governors of Maryland
Provincial (1632–1776)	L. Calvert E. Hill Greene Stone Fendall P. Calvert C. Calvert, 3rd Baron Wharton Notley C. Calvert, 3rd Baron B. Calvert Joseph Coode Neh. Blakiston Copley Lawrence Andros Greenberry Andros Lawrence Nicholson Nat. Blakiston Tench Seymour Lloyd Hart Brooke C. Calvert, 5th Baron B. L. Calvert Ogle C. Calvert, 5th Baron Ogle Bladen Ogle Tasker Sharpe Eden
State (since 1776)	Johnson T. Lee Paca Smallwood J. Howard Plater Brice T. Lee Stone Henry Ogle Mercer R. Bowie Wright E. Lloyd R. Bowie Winder Ridgely C. Goldsborough Sprigg Stevens Kent Martin T. Carroll Martin G. Howard J. Thomas Veazey Grason F. Thomas Pratt P. Thomas Lowe Ligon Hicks Bradford Swann O. Bowie Whyte Groome J. Carroll Hamilton McLane H. Lloyd Jackson Brown Lowndes Smith Warfield Crothers P. Goldsborough Harrington Ritchie Nice O'Conor Lane McKeldin Tawes Agnew Mandel B. Lee Hughes Schaefer Glendening Ehrlich O'Malley Hogan Moore
Italics indicate acting officeholders

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