• Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?

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Baltimore

• Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
• James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?
• Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus"?
• Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
• The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson wrote an autobiography, Grace After Midnight, chronicling her drug-dealing days in Baltimore, imprisonment on murder charges and rehabilitation?
• after retiring from professional wrestling, Ida Mae Martinez was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients?
• the chicken tax led to Ford importing light trucks to the United States from Turkey and immediately shredding portions of their interiors in Baltimore?

American Civil War

• Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War?
• Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War?
• Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (pictured), reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
• American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
• American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?
• Captain William Reynolds, a veteran of the American Civil War, formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano?
• Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight?
• French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War, sparking an international incident?
• Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter L. Bragg died after suffering from the effects of Civil War wounds, a quarter century after the war ended?
• Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?

Maryland

• Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
• Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
• Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
• Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine?
• Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
• Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate, Senate President, and State Treasurer?
• Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
• Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
• Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
• Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?

Democratic Party (United States)

• Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary?
• Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?
• Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
• Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
• New Jersey Assemblymember Jack Casey was one of many Democratic Party incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave"?
• Republican Governor Bobby Jindal supported Joel Chaisson, a Democrat, to become the new president of the Louisiana State Senate?
• Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election?
• Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
• American politician Dean Alfange (pictured) held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York?
• U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey (pictured) entered the 1968 presidential race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries, and had to use "favorite son" candidates as stand-ins for his campaign?

John Thomas Scharf

• Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?