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Talbot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,526. [2] Its county seat is Easton. [3] The county was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore. [4]
Maryland's Legislative District 37 is one of 47 districts in the state for the Maryland General Assembly. It covers Talbot County, Maryland and parts of Caroline County, Dorchester County and Wicomico County. The district is divided into two sub-districts for the Maryland House of Delegates: District 37A and District 37B. [1]
County executives head nine of the 23 counties of Maryland: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, and Wicomico.All of these counties have chartered governments and county councils; while Dorchester and Talbot counties also have chartered governments, they do not have executives.
The Talbot County Courthouse is located at 11 North Washington Street in Easton, Maryland, United States.The courthouse houses the chambers and courtrooms for the judge of the Circuit Court for Talbot County, as well as the clerk's offices, jurors' assembly room, the master's office and the offices of the Talbot County Council.
Within Maryland the county is the default unit of local government. Under Maryland law, counties exercise powers reserved in most other states at the municipal or state levels. [4] Many of the state's most populous and economically important communities, such as Bethesda, Silver Spring, Columbia, and Towson are unincorporated and receive their ...
The history of Quakerism in Talbot County goes back as far as the earliest European settlements of the area in 1658 and 1659. By the early 1660s, at least four Friends meetings were in existence: Bayside, along the Chesapeake Bay; Choptank and Tuckahoe, along the rivers of those names; and Michael's River, along what is now known as the Miles River.
William Hemsley (January 23, 1737 – June 5, 1812) was an American planter and political leader from Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783. Hemsley's entire life was closely connected with his family's plantation, Clover Fields Farm, in Queen Anne's County on Maryland's Eastern Shore
Horne first entered into politics in 1968 after being elected Assistant State's Attorney for Talbot County, Maryland, which he served from 1968 to 1971, and as the county's State's Attorney until 1973. Afterwards, he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 35 from 1973 to 1982 and District 37 until 1989.