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Winder, Levin

soldier, state senator, governor, was born in 1756. He was appointed major of the Maryland regiment in 1777; and was a lieutenantcolonel at the close of the revolutionary war. Prior to 1812 he was speaker of the house of delegates, and from 1812 to 1815 was governor of Maryland. In 1816 he was a member of the state senate, and was a general of militia and grand master of Masons of Maryland. He died July 7, 1819, in Baltimore, Md.

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