Levin Winder

Levin Winder
14th Governor of Maryland
In office
November 25, 1812 – January 2, 1816
Preceded byRobert Bowie
Succeeded byCharles Carnan Ridgely
Personal details
Born(1757-09-04)September 4, 1757
Somerset County, Province of Maryland, British America
DiedJuly 1, 1819(1819-07-01) (aged 61)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting placeFirst Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Baltimore
Political partyFederalist
SpouseMary Staughton Sloss (1790–?)
Children3
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

  1. ^ 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 Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
1791–1793 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
1808–1809 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of Maryland
1812–1816 		Succeeded by