Vickers, George
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Nov. 19, 1801, in Chestertown, Md. In 1836 he was an elector of the state senate of Maryland; and in 1864 was a presidential elector.. He was a member of the Maryland state senate in 1866 and 1867, and in 1868 was elected a senator in congress from Maryland, for the term ending in 1873, to fill a vacancy. At the commencement of the rebellion he received the appointment of major-general of the Maryland militia.
He died Oct. 8, 1879, in Chestertown, Md.