Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.

Who was Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.?

Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., a member of the United States Republican Party, was the 43rd Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1896 to 1900 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1873 to 1875. He was born in 1845 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, a great-grandson of early Bladensburg, Maryland settler, Christopher Lowndes. He attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1867. Shortly after his election as governor, he attended a reception in Carroll County at the Andrew P. Frizzell House and Farm Complex. Lowndes died in 1905 in Cumberland, Maryland, and is buried at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Cumberland, Maryland.