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Edward Lloyd V

Governor of Maryland (1779-1834)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
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Edward Lloyd V was an American politician and slaveholder. He served as the 13th governor of Maryland from 1809 to 1811, and as a United States senator from Maryland between 1819 and 1826. He also served as a U.S. congressman from the seventh district of Maryland from 1807 to 1809. Frederick Douglass described the life of the enslaved people forced to work on his plantation.

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