John Lee Carroll
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John Lee Carroll (September 30, 1830 – February 27, 1911), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 37th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1876 to 1880. He was born in 1830 in Baltimore, Maryland and died in 1911 in Washington, D.C.. He is buried at the Bonnie Brae Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
During the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Governor Carroll called up the 5th and 6th Regiments of the state militia to stop railroad workers from striking in Cumberland, resulting in riots in Baltimore when the militia attempted to march from their armories to Camden Station.[1] Federal troops were then called in to restore order in Baltimore.
Mr. Carroll was the great grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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- ^ Scharf, J. Thomas (1967 (reissue of 1879 ed.)), History of Maryland From the Earliest Period to the Present Day, vol. 3, Hatboro, PA: Tradition Press, pp. 733-42
| Preceded by Henry Snyder |
President of the Maryland State Senate 1874 |
Succeeded by Daniel Fields |
| Preceded by James B. Groome |
Governor of Maryland 1876–1880 |
Succeeded by William T. Hamilton |
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