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{{short description|American politician and baseball player (1839–1906)}}
{{for|his son|Arthur Pue Gorman Jr.}}
{{redirect|Senator Gorman}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Arthur P. Gorman
|image        = Arthur Pue Gorman.jpg
|caption = Gorman c. 1899
|office       = [[Senate Democratic Caucus#Chairs|Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus]]
|term_start   = March 4, 1903
|term_end     = June 4, 1906
|predecessor  = [[James Kimbrough Jones]]
|successor    = [[Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn]]
|term_start1  = May 3, 1890
|term_end1    = April 1898
|predecessor1 = [[James B. Beck]]
|successor1   = [[David Turpie]]
|jr/sr2       = [[United States Senator]]
|state2       = [[Maryland]]
|term_start2  = March 4, 1903
|term_end2    = June 4, 1906
|predecessor2 = [[George L. Wellington|George Wellington]]
|successor2   = [[William Pinkney Whyte]]
|term_start3  = March 4, 1881
|term_end3    = March 3, 1899
|predecessor3 = [[William Pinkney Whyte]]
|successor3   = [[Louis E. McComas]]
|office4      = Member of the [[Maryland Senate]] from [[Howard County, Maryland|Howard County]]
|term_start4  = 1875
|term_end4    = 1881<ref name="stateleg">{{cite book |title=Maryland Mortalities 1876–1915 from the (Baltimore) Sun Almanac |first=Walter E. Jr. |last=Arps |page=93 |publisher=Heritage Books |date=November 2004 |isbn=978-1585492541}}</ref>
|predecessor4 = [[John Lee Carroll]]
|successor4   = [[Edwin Warfield]]
|office5 = [[List of speakers of the Maryland House of Delegates|Speaker]] of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]]
|term_start5 = 1872
|term_end5 = 1874
|predecessor5 = [[Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe]]
|successor5 = [[Jesse K. Hines]]
|office6      = Member of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] from [[Howard County, Maryland|Howard County]]
|term_start6  = 1869
|term_end6    = 1875<ref name="stateleg" />
|alongside6 = [[William Matthews Merrick]] (1869–1871), Edward Linthicum (1871–1875)
|predecessor6 = John R. Clark, I. Thomas Jones
|successor6 = Littleton Maclin, Claudius Stewart
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1839|3|11}}
|birth_place  = [[Woodstock, Maryland]], U.S.
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1906|6|4|1839|3|11}}
|death_place  = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
|restingplace = [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]]<br />Washington, D.C., U.S.
|party        = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|spouse       = {{marriage|Hannah "Hattie" Donagan<br>|March 28, 1867<!--|June 4, 1906|reason=his death-->}}
|children     = 6, including [[Arthur Pue Gorman Jr.|Arthur Jr.]]
|father       = [[Peter Gorman]]
|relatives    = {{ublist|[[William Henry Gorman]] (brother)|[[Henry Gassaway Davis]] (cousin)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/government/davishenry01.html |title=Death of Henry Gassaway Davis |date=March 11, 1916 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Elkins Inter-Mountain |via=West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History |access-date=March 27, 2021 |quote=Mrs. Davis' sister was the mother of the late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, and the two first cousins were always intimate associates}}</ref>}}
|signature    = Signature of Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906).png
}}
'''Arthur Pue Gorman''' (March 11, 1839{{spaced ndash}}June 4, 1906) was an American politician. He was leader of the Gorman-Rasin organization with [[Isaac Freeman Rasin]] that controlled the [[Maryland Democratic Party]] from the late 1870s until his death in 1906.<ref name="msa" /> Gorman served as [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Maryland]] from 1881 to 1899 and again from 1903 until his death. He was a prominent leader of the [[Bourbon Democrat]] faction of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. Gorman was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during [[Grover Cleveland]]'s 1884 presidential campaign and he is widely credited with securing Cleveland's victory.<ref name="Death Ends Senator Gorman's Career">{{cite news |title=Death Ends Senator Gorman's Career in the Nation's Service |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=June 5, 1906 |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|144702765}}}}</ref> In 1952 Gorman was described in ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' as "easily the most powerful political figure [Maryland] has ever known."<ref>{{cite news |last=Stump |first=William |title=Man In The Street: Gorman |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=October 19, 1952 |page=28 |id={{ProQuest|541690605}}}}</ref>

As a young man, Gorman also played a prominent role in the early development of baseball in Washington, D.C. He was a founding member of the original [[Washington Nationals (NA)|Washington Nationals]] of the [[National Association of Professional Base Ball Players|National Association]], the first American baseball team, and became one of the nation's star players by 1864. Later in life, he served as a member of the [[Mills Commission]] which investigated the origins of the sport.<ref name="sabr" />

== Early life and career ==
Gorman was born in [[Woodstock, Maryland]] on March 11, 1839. His father was  [[Peter Gorman (Businessman)|Peter Gorman]], a construction contractor, and his mother was Elizabeth A. Gorman (née Brown). Arthur was named after the family physician, Dr. Arthur Pue. He was the first of five children, including [[William Henry Gorman|William]].<ref name="sabr" />

Gorman's paternal grandfather, John, emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland circa 1794, first settling in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]] before moving to the Baltimore area.<ref name="sabr" />

The Gorman family moved to Howard County, Maryland around 1845,<ref name="monumental">{{cite book |last=Howard |first=George W. |title=The Monumental City |publisher=J.D. Ehlers & Co. |year=1880 |location=Baltimore |pages=753–756}}</ref> where Peter Gorman bought a {{convert|150|acre|adj=on}} farm several miles from Laurel.<ref name="sabr" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Gates|first=Merrill E.|url=https://archive.org/details/menmarkinameric01unkngoog|title=Men of Mark in America|publisher=Men of Mark|year=1905|location=Washington|page=[https://archive.org/details/menmarkinameric01unkngoog/page/n527 392]|author-link=Merrill Edward Gates|access-date=November 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoEfAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA44|title=Official Congressional Directory|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=1904|location=Washington|page=44|access-date=November 6, 2009}}</ref> Gorman attended Howard County public schools<ref>{{cite news |title=The New Senator |newspaper=[[Baltimore American]] |date=January 9, 1880 |page=4}}</ref> and for at least one year his father hired a tutor to teach him and neighboring students.<ref name="Lambert">{{cite book| title=Arthur Pue Gorman |last=Lambert |first=John R. |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |location=Baton Rouge |year=1953}}</ref>{{rp|5}}

In 1850, Peter Gorman used his connections to Maryland Congressmen [[William T. Hamilton]] and [[Edward Hammond (politician)|Edward Hammond]] to arrange for 11-year old Arthur to serve as a [[United States Senate Page|U.S. Senate page]].<ref name="sabr" /> Gorman became friends with prominent [[Illinois]] Senator [[Stephen A. Douglas]], who made Gorman his private secretary.<ref name="sabr" /> Some sources state that Gorman accompanied Douglas during his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858,<ref name="monumental" /> although biographer John R. Lambert questions these accounts.<ref name="Lambert" />{{rp|7}} Gorman continued to work for the senate throughout the 1850s and 1860s, including positions as messenger, assistant doorkeeper, and assistant postmaster.<ref name="congbio">{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000326 |title=GORMAN, Arthur Pue |publisher=U.S. House of Representatives |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=August 26, 2013}}</ref> In 1866, he was appointed Postmaster.<ref name="congbio" /> Gorman's experience in the Senate gave him extensive knowledge of parliamentary procedures that he would put to use during his political career.<ref>{{cite news |title=Long Career of Dead Senator |newspaper=Baltimore American |date=June 5, 1906}}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War]], Gorman was a pro-[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] Democrat. In September 1866, Republicans who held the senate majority removed him as postmaster because he supported President [[Andrew Johnson]]'s Reconstruction policies. Johnson immediately appointed Gorman as Collector of Internal Revenue for the [[Fifth Congressional District of Maryland]].<ref name="sabr" />

== Baseball ==
At the age of 20 in 1859, Gorman was one of the founding members of the [[Washington Nationals (NA)|Washington Nationals]], the first fully professional baseball team in America. He rose to become a star by the end of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] era.<ref>{{cite book |first=Shirley |last=Povich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ZLAAAAYAAJ&q=arthur+pue+gorman |title=The Washington Senators |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |year=1954 |pages=3–4}}</ref> According to contemporary accounts, Gorman was the team's standout left fielder, but often substituted or filled in at every other position, including pitcher and catcher.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 12, 1891 |title=Highways and Byways: What becomes of the base-ball players when they leave the diamond? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3o4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA298 |magazine=The Epoch |location=New York, New York |publisher=The Epoch Publishing Company |page=298 |via=[[Google Books]] |volume=IX |number=227}}</ref>

In 1867, he led the Nationals in their first trip over [[Appalachian Mountains|the mountains]], in which they beat every midwest team except [[Rockford Forest Citys|Rockford, Illinois]], which had [[Albert Spalding]] as its pitcher.<ref name="mhm">{{cite magazine |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000347/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_347.pdf#page=11 |volume=87 |issue=2 |title=Play Ball! The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Baltimore Baseball |magazine=Maryland Historical Magazine |date=Summer 1992 |access-date=May 26, 2018 |publisher=Maryland Historical Society |at=pp. 11–12 (129–130) |first=James H. |last=Brady}}</ref> Also in 1867, Gorman was elected to a one-year term as president of the [[National Association of Base Ball Players]].<ref name="sabr">{{cite web |url=http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/1c2a4dc3 |work=SABR Baseball Biography Project |title=Arthur Gorman |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |first=Brian |last=McKenna |access-date=August 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name="mhm" />

In 1891, as part of an expanded [[National League (baseball)|National League]], a Washington franchise was added.  Originally called the [[Washington Statesmen]], the team was renamed "Senators" to honor Gorman.  While this team folded in 1899, subsequent franchises would use the "Senators" name until 1971. In February 1903, Gorman and his son-in-law Wilton Lambert attempted but failed to buy the [[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Senators]] baseball team.<ref name="sabr" />

== Early political career ==
Gorman was elected to the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] in 1869, serving until 1875; he served as [[Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates|Speaker of the House]] for one session.

Gorman was closely aligned with Baltimore political leader [[Isaac Freeman Rasin]] and supported [[William Pinkney Whyte]] for Governor in 1871. Whyte, in turn, gave Gorman a position as director of the C&O Canal.<ref>{{cite book |first=Richardson |last=Dilworth |title=Cities in American Political History |page=318}}</ref>

In 1875, he was elected to the [[Maryland State Senate]], serving until 1881.<ref name="congbio" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/senate/html/hosenate.html |title=Historical List, Senate, Howard County (1852–1966) |website=Maryland Manual On-Line |publisher=[[Maryland State Archives]] |date=February 13, 2008 |access-date=December 16, 2022}}</ref>

== U.S. Senator ==
In 1880, the Maryland legislature elected Gorman to the United States Senate, where he soon became a leader of the [[Bourbon Democrat]]s. The ''New York Times'' reported that the previous legislative election was influenced by large groups of "ward rounders" who shot and wounded black Republican voters at the Howard County polls.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 5, 1879 |title=Maryland-Colored voters shot down and driven away from the polls |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1879/11/05/80698734.pdf |access-date=September 24, 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco MET DPB873736.jpg|thumb|An 1888 tobacco company trading card speculates on Gorman's chances for the presidency.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guide to the W. Duke, Sons & Co. Records and Advertising Materials, 1876–1953 |url=https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/dukeandsons/ |access-date=February 23, 2018 |publisher=Duke University Libraries}}</ref>]]

In 1884 Gorman became chairman of the National Democratic Committee and served as campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Grover Cleveland.<ref name="Lambert" />{{rp|102–103}} Cleveland faced Republican candidate [[James G. Blaine|James Blaine]] in the election. The campaign was an extremely negative and close one. Blaine actively courted the Irish Catholic vote and he publicized that his mother was Catholic.<ref name="Lambert" />{{rp|107}} On Wednesday October 29, Blaine attended a meeting with Protestant clergymen in New York City. At the meeting, Rev. Samuel D. Burchard made an introductory speech in which he denounced the Democratic Party as the party of "rum, Romanism and rebellion". The fatigued Blaine did not hear the comment and when he spoke, he failed to correct this attack on Catholicism.<ref name="Lambert" />{{rp|107–108}} Gorman, who was operating from Democratic headquarters in New York, had sent a stenographic reporter to cover the meeting.<ref name="Lambert" />{{rp|106, 108}}  After learning what Burchard had said, Gorman immediately recognized the importance of the "rum, Romanism and rebellion" comment and went to work.<ref name="Straus">{{cite book| title=Under Four Administrations |last=Straus |first=Oscar S. |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |location=Boston and New York |year=1922}}</ref>{{rp|39}} Within hours cities with large Catholic populations were blanketed with posters and handbills with the letters "R.R.R." on them<ref name="Lambert" />{{rp|108–109}} and dispatches were sent to newspapers across the country.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite book| title=Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter |last=Hudson |first=William C. |publisher=Cupples & Leon Company |location=New York |year=1911}}</ref>{{rp|209–210}} Blaine tried to make a disclaimer, but the damage was done. The November 4 election was determined by New York, which Cleveland won by only 1,149 votes (0.1% of the total vote). Gorman's handling of the Cleveland campaign, including the "rum, Romanism and rebellion" comment, was widely recognized as the decisive factor in securing Cleveland's victory.<ref name="Death Ends Senator Gorman's Career" /><ref>"Senator Arthur P. Gorman Dead", ''The Brooklyn Eagle'', June 4, 1906, p. 28</ref>

He served as the [[Democratic caucus]] chairman from 1890 to 1898. He chaired the [[United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing|Committee on Printing]] (53rd Congress) and served on the [[United States Senate Committee on Private Land Claims|Committee on Private Land Claims]] (55th Congress).<ref name="congbio" />

He played a major role in financial and tariff legislation, especially the [[Wilson-Gorman Tariff]] of 1894, which successfully lowered tariffs in response to the [[McKinley Tariff|McKinley Act of 1890]], but thwarted President [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]]'s effort at completely or nearly free trade.

Gorman was reelected twice more in 1886 and 1892 but was defeated for re-election in 1898, losing to [[Louis E. McComas]].<ref name="congbio" /> After his defeat, Gorman campaigned for Maryland's other U.S. Senate seat and was elected again by the Legislature in 1902.<ref name="congbio" /><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000230/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_230.pdf#page=13 |magazine=Maryland Historical Magazine |date=June 1963 |volume=58 |issue=2 |at=p. 13 (103) |title=The Autobiographical Writings of Senator Arthur Pue Gorman |first=John R. Jr. |last=Lambert |access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58–1 – Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session – beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=July 2, 2023 |page=44 |date=November 9, 1903}}</ref> He was again appointed as the Democratic Caucus Chairman, which he held from 1903 to 1906.<ref name="congbio" />[[File:Arthur Pue Gorman 1902.jpg|thumb|left|Satirical cartoon depicting Gorman leading Democrats in the 1902 election]] Gorman was briefly a candidate for U.S. president in [[1892 United States presidential election|1892]] and [[1904 United States presidential election|1904]].<ref name="timesobit" />

=== Racial politics ===
In 1889, Gorman sought to differentiate his party from a growing mixed-race coalition of Republicans and independent Democrats. He was quoted as saying, "We have determined that this government was made by white men and shall be ruled by white men as long as the republic lasts."<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Spring 1989 |title=Integrating the Maryland School of Law |url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000334/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_334.pdf |page=42 |magazine=Maryland Historical Magazine}}</ref>

In his final years, according to the Maryland State Archives' biography, Gorman "spearheaded an attempt by Democrats to disenfranchise black voters in Maryland, who tended to vote Republican." Related legislation passed easily in the Democratically controlled Senate of early 1904, though [[Edwin Warfield|Governor Warfield]] did not sign the bill into law, and it was rejected by voters in late 1905.<ref name="msa">{{cite web|title=Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906)|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001600/001675/html/bio2.html|access-date=August 26, 2013|publisher=Maryland State Archives}}</ref>

== Personal life and family ==
Gorman married a widow, Hannah T. "Hattie" Donagan, on March 28, 1867.<ref name="sabr" /> She was born {{circa|1836}} in Reading, Pennsylvania, the daughter of George P. Donagan, and her first marriage c. 1853 was to Alexander Jordan Swartz, who was a [[Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania|mayor of Reading]] for a term before later working in Washington, D.C. and dying c. 1864.<ref name="wpHattie">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-washington-post-mrs-gorman-is-dead/144000605/ |title=Mrs. Gorman is Dead |date=June 22, 1910 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=March 23, 2024}}{{Open access}}</ref>

Gorman served as a director and eventually president of the [[Chesapeake & Ohio Canal]] Company;<ref name="msa" /> the canal ran along the north shore of the [[Potomac River]] from [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]] above [[Washington, D.C.]], to [[Cumberland, Maryland]].

The Gormans had five daughters and one son: Ada, Haddie, Grace, Anne Elizabeth ("Bessie"), Mary and [[Arthur Pue Gorman Jr.|Arthur P. Jr.]]<ref name="sabr" /> In 1890, Gorman's wife and daughter Grace escaped a fire at their [[North Laurel, Maryland|Laurel]] house "Fairview"; a new [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]] style house was built in its place the following year.<ref>{{cite news|date=December 19, 1890|title=Senator Gormans Loss|page=11|newspaper=The Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=December 17, 1890|title=A Fine Mansion Burned|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1890/12/18/103286946.pdf|access-date=August 30, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=September 3, 1891|title=Home of Mr. Gorman. The Burned House at Laurel, MD, to be Replaced|page=10|newspaper=Los Angeles Herald|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18910903.2.56|access-date=August 30, 2013}}</ref>

=== Haddie Gorman Gambrill ===
[[File:Haddie Gorman.jpg|thumb|Haddie Gorman in 1895]]Gorman's eldest daughter, Haddie, married [[Stephen Warfield Gambrill]] in 1900.<ref>{{cite news|date=March 28, 1923|title=Obituaries|page=1|newspaper=Morning Herald|place=Hagerstown, Maryland}}</ref> Her husband later served as a Maryland state delegate, state senator, and U.S. representative.<ref>{{CongBio|G000035|inline=1|name=Stephen Warfield Gambrill|date=September 1, 2013}}</ref>

=== Ada Gorman ===
[[File:Ada Gorman.jpg|thumb|left|Ada Gorman in 1895]]Gorman's daughter Ada married Charles Joseph Magness, a young man about half her age, against her family's wishes in 1908.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 22, 1908|title=From Washington|page=2|newspaper=Alexandria Gazette|url=http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=AG19081022.1.2|quote=Magness was born of humble parents in Baltimore in 1885.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 1908 |title=Deserter Magness Torn from Daughter of Late Senator Gorman |page=1 |newspaper=The Washington Post |id={{ProQuest|144812982}} |quote=Magness is 22 years old according to the record of his enlistment while Mrs. Magness is said to be 38 years old.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=October 22, 1908|title=Hold As Deserter Gorman's Relative|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/10/22/104764708.pdf|access-date=September 1, 2013|quote=Magness is 23 years of age, according to the record of his enlistment}}</ref> Magness was soon thereafter imprisoned for [[desertion]] from the U.S. Navy. Upon his release a year later, the couple lived in Washington, D.C., and then the Baltimore suburb of [[Lutherville, Maryland|Lutherville]].<ref name="coughlin">{{cite news|last=Coughlin|first=Gene|date=July 23, 1950|title=Lost Love of the Senator's Daughter|page=7|newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel|department=The American Weekly magazine|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19500723&id=XSkxAAAAIBAJ&pg=5922,1060901|access-date=September 1, 2013}}{{dead link|date=March 2024}}</ref>

When her mother died in 1910, Ada was cut off from her share of the Gorman family estate.<ref>{{cite news|date=July 7, 1910|title=Gorman Daughter Rebuked in Will|newspaper=The Washington Herald|publisher=Library of Congress|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1910-07-07/ed-1/seq-1/|access-date=September 1, 2013|quote=The will of Mrs. Hannah D. Gorman, widow of the late senator Arthur P. Gorman, which was filed in the Probate Court yesterday afternoon, cuts off Ada Gorman Magness, who, against the will of her mother and family, married Charles Magness, a musician in the Marine Corps.}}</ref> The marriage lasted a total of 14 years before Ada divorced in 1922 due to her husband's infidelity.<ref name="coughlin" /><ref>{{cite news|date=August 4, 1922|title=Mrs. Magness Asks Decree|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/04/99050583.pdf|access-date=September 1, 2013|quote=Mrs. Magness says that since Jan. 1, 1921, her husband has been guilty of infidelity on divers occasions.}}</ref> She died childless and with few friends in the spring of 1950.<ref name="coughlin" />

=== Grace "Daisy" Gorman Johnson ===
Gorman's daughter Grace (better known as Daisy) married Richard Alward Johnson, the first manager of the [[Laurel Park (race track)|Laurel race track]] and later a Maryland State Senator, in 1895.<ref name="MSAoverlook">{{cite web |title=Overlook (Kingdon Gould) House |url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/015000/015800/015808/pdf/msa_se5_15808.pdf |website=[[Maryland State Archives]] |access-date=August 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112211331/http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/015000/015800/015808/pdf/msa_se5_15808.pdf |archive-date=November 12, 2013}}</ref> They had two children, Richard Jr. and Grace. They lived at the historic Overlook farmhouse in [[North Laurel, Maryland|North Laurel]], which was built for Daisy on the family property in 1911.<ref name="BSkgj">{{cite news|last=Kelly|first=Jacques|date=January 19, 2018|title=Kingdon Gould Jr., former ambassador and astute parking lot investor, dies at 94|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-kingdon-gould-20180119-story.html|access-date=May 26, 2018|archive-date=January 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120065824/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-kingdon-gould-20180119-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> (This home was later owned from 1952 to 2018 by diplomat and businessman [[Kingdon Gould Jr.]], who raised his family and died there.)<ref name="MSAoverlook" /><ref name="BSkgj" /> The town of [[Daisy, Maryland|Daisy]] in [[Howard County, Maryland]], is named in Gorman's daughter's honor. Her son, Richard Jr., raised and trained horses, and her daughter, Grace Johnson, later married Braxton Bragg Comer Jr., son of former Alabama Governor [[B. B. Comer]].<ref name="Sarasota">{{cite news|date=April 27, 1954|title=Braxton Comer Jr. Dies in Alabama|page=10|newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19540427&id=i-IcAAAAIBAJ&pg=2930,5115129|access-date=December 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=June 8, 1942|title=Social News|page=3|newspaper=The Anniston Star|quote=Mrs. Frank Willis Comer of Eufaula announces the engagement of her daughter, Annie Laurie, to Richard Johnson Comer of Glennville Plantation}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=March 15, 1918|title=Johnson-Comer Engagement|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/15/98260562.pdf|access-date=December 27, 2013}}</ref>

=== Arthur Gorman Jr. ===
[[File:Portrait of Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. (1914).png|thumb|Arthur P. Gorman Jr. c. 1914|alt=Black-and-white posed photo of Gorman Jr wearing a dark suit coat, darker tie, and a white collared shirt]]
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Gorman's only son, Arthur Jr., attended [[Lawrenceville School|Lawrenceville Prep]] and played on the [[University of Maryland, College Park|Maryland Agricultural College]] [[Maryland Aggies football|football team]] in [[1892 Maryland Aggies football team|1892]] and [[1893 Maryland Aggies football team|1893]] as a [[fullback (American football)|fullback]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Morris Allison |last=Bealle |title=Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952 |page=16 |publisher=Columbia Publishing Co. |date=1952}}</ref> In 1898, Arthur Jr. founded the Piedmont Mining Company in Maryland and West Virginia with his uncle [[William Henry Gorman|William]] and Thomas L. Marriott.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 13, 1898 |title=Mining Company Incorporated |page=3 |newspaper=The Washington Post |id={{ProQuest|144041532}}}}</ref> He married Grace Norris on November 28, 1900.<ref>{{cite news|date=November 9, 1900|title=Social and Personal|newspaper=The Evening Times|publisher=Library of Congress|location=Washington, D.C.|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024441/1900-11-09/ed-1/seq-5/|access-date=August 30, 2013}}</ref> Arthur Jr. served as a Maryland state senator (1904–1910), the last year during which he was [[President of the Maryland Senate|Senate President]].<ref>{{cite web|date=April 30, 2010|title=Arthur P. Gorman, Jr.|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/012700/012735/html/msa12735.html|access-date=August 30, 2013|publisher=Maryland State Archives}}</ref>

Arthur Jr. was [[1911 Maryland gubernatorial election|nominated for Governor of Maryland in 1911]], but narrowly lost to Republican [[Phillips Lee Goldsborough]].<ref>{{cite news |first=C. Fraser |last=Smith |date=January 19, 2012 |title=Commentary: Right time, right place for Lee |newspaper=[[Daily Record (Maryland)|The Daily Record]] |location=Baltimore |url=https://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/19/c-fraser-smith-right-time-right-place-for-lee/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020012500/https://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/19/c-fraser-smith-right-time-right-place-for-lee/ |archive-date=October 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Historical List|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000179/pdf/am179--729.pdf|access-date=August 30, 2013|publisher=Maryland State Archives}}</ref> He was later a state tax commissioner, until his death in 1919 due to complications from diabetes.<ref>{{cite news|date=September 4, 1919|title=Arthur P. Gorman Dies in Hospital|newspaper=The Washington Times|publisher=Library of Congress|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1919-09-04/ed-1/seq-17/|access-date=September 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |publisher=[[Maryland Senate]] |title=Journal of Proceedings |year=1920 |pages=250–252 |chapter=Senate Resolution to the Memory of Hon. Arthur P. Gorman |access-date=August 31, 2013 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyYlAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA250}}</ref>

=== Bessie Gorman Lambert ===
Gorman's daughter Bessie married Princeton graduate and Democratic speechwriter Wilton J. Lambert on June 24, 1896, at the Gormans' Washington home on the corner of 15th and K Streets.<ref>{{cite news|date=June 25, 1896|title=Lambert–Gorman|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/06/25/108240027.pdf|access-date=September 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOYKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA318|title=The American Lawyer|publisher=Stumpf & Steurer|year=1896|editor1-last=Smith|editor1-first=Frank Charles|volume=4|page=318|quote=The ceremony was performed at 6.30 o'clock at the spacious home of Senator and Mrs. Gorman, corner of 15th and K streets.|orig-year=Digitized June 16, 2010|editor2-last=Proctor|editor2-first=Lucien Brock|editor3-last=Chapin|editor3-first=Heman Gerald|editor4-last=Harvey|editor4-first=Richard Selden}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Princeton University Class of 1892|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/princeton-university-class-of-1892/quindecennial-record-of-the-span-classsearchtermclassspan-of-ninety-two--nir/page-12-quindecennial-record-of-the-span-classsearchtermclassspan-of-ninety-two--nir.shtml|title=Quindecennial Record of the Class of Ninety-two of Princeton University|publisher=Grafton Press|year=1907|location=New York|page=12|quote=have taken considerable interest and done considerable work in the line of political speech-making in Maryland on behalf of the Democratic party}}</ref> They had two children, Elizabeth (b. 1897) and Arthur.<ref>{{cite book|author=Princeton University Class of 1892|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/princeton-university-class-of-1892/quindecennial-record-of-the-span-classsearchtermclassspan-of-ninety-two--nir/page-12-quindecennial-record-of-the-span-classsearchtermclassspan-of-ninety-two--nir.shtml|title=Quindecennial Record of the Class of Ninety-two of Princeton University|publisher=Grafton Press|year=1907|location=New York|page=11|access-date=September 6, 2013}}</ref>  An attorney, Lambert helped Bessie's father attempt to buy the [[History of the Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] baseball team in February 1903.<ref name="sabr" /> Bessie's son, Arthur Gorman Lambert (1899–1991), was a member of Princeton's class of 1922, also practiced law, and founded [[Suburban Hospital]] in Bethesda, Maryland;<ref>{{cite web|date=December 4, 1991|title=Arthur Gorman Lambert '22|url=http://paw.princeton.edu/memorials/70/41/index.xml?undergraduate_class=1922|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927112702/http://paw.princeton.edu/memorials/70/41/index.xml?undergraduate_class=1922|archive-date=September 27, 2013|access-date=September 6, 2013|work=Princeton Alumni Weekly|publisher=Princeton University Class of 1922}}</ref> he unveiled a donated portrait of his grandfather, Arthur Pue Gorman, at the Capitol in 1943.<ref>{{cite web|title=Arthur P. Gorman|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_32_00019.htm|access-date=September 6, 2013|work=www.senate.gov|publisher=United States Senate}}</ref>
[[File:Arthur gorman.jpg|thumb|alt=oil on canvas portrait of a silver and gray-haired Senator Gorman, wearing a dark suit and seated toward the left against a dark background, facing the viewer with a soft smile on his lips|Gorman's senate portrait, by Louis P. Dieterich, 1911]]

=== Mary Gorman Hills ===
Gorman's youngest daughter, Mary, married Ralph Warren Hills on February 27, 1901.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lextalionisanaly00hill|title=Lex talionis; an analysis of the forces whose resultant produced the Treaty of Versailles|publisher=Fleet-McGinley|year=1922|location=Baltimore, Maryland|access-date=September 7, 2013}}</ref> Their son, [[Ralph Hills|Ralph Gorman Hills]], won a bronze medal for [[Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put|shot put]] at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="howard">{{cite journal|last=Howard|first=John Eager M.D.|year=1979|title=Memorial: Ralph Gorman Hills|journal=Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association|publisher=[[National Institutes of Health]] [[United States National Library of Medicine]]|volume=90|pages=xli–xlii|pmc=2279394|pmid=390815}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph Warren Hills|url=http://records.ancestry.com/Ralph_Warren_Hills_records.ashx?pid=101984005|access-date=August 31, 2013|publisher=[[ancestry.com]]}}</ref> He graduated from Princeton University, after which he earned an M.D. degree from [[Johns Hopkins University]] and became a doctor;<ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph Hills Bio, Stats, and Results|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/ralph-hills-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174529/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/ralph-hills-1.html|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 31, 2013|publisher=Sports Reference}}</ref> his first son, J. Dixon Hills,<ref name="RWHobit">{{cite news|last=Sentementes|first=Gus G.|date=June 17, 2012|title=Obituary for Ralph Warren Hills, long-time television producer for WBAL-TV|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-06-17/news/bs-md-ob-ralph-warren-hills-20120617_1_north-baltimore-game-show-television|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001005323/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-06-17/news/bs-md-ob-ralph-warren-hills-20120617_1_north-baltimore-game-show-television|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 1, 2015|access-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref> also chose to become a physician.<ref name="howard" />

Gorman's great-grandson, Ralph Warren Hills Jr., was a [[WBAL-TV|WBAL television]] producer in Baltimore.<ref name="RWHobit" /><ref>{{cite journal|date=February 6, 2013|title=Ralph Warren Hills '61|url=http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2013/02/06/sections/memorials/9435/index.xml|journal=Princeton Alumni Weekly|volume=113|issue=7|access-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=News Archive&nbsp;– 2012|url=http://www.princeton61.org/newsletter.asp?id=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612002133/http://www.princeton61.org/newsletter.asp?id=1|archive-date=June 12, 2013|access-date=August 31, 2013|publisher=Princeton University Class of 1961}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph Warren "Hillsy" Hills|url=http://www.hydebay.net/WhereAreTheyNow/Where_WarrenHills.html|access-date=September 8, 2013|work=Hyde Bay Camp website|publisher=John Mercer}}</ref>

== Death and legacy ==
[[File:Grave of Arthur Pue Gorman (1839-1906).jpg|thumb|upright|left|Grave of Gorman at Oak Hill Cemetery]]
Gorman served as a U.S. senator until his death from a heart attack in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 1906.<ref name="msa" /> He had been ill with stomach trouble and had not left his Washington house since mid-January.<ref name="timesobit">{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/06/05/101843565.pdf |title=Gorman Dies Suddenly; Was Seemingly Better |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 5, 1906 |access-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Oh, You must live in Columbia|first1=Missy |last1=Burke |first2=Robin |last2=Emrich |first3=Barbara |last3=Kellner |page=55}}</ref> He was interred at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C.{{sfn|Dodge|2005|page=1139}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/564.pdf |title=Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Chapel Hill) – Lot 564 (Gorman Circle) |website=oakhillcemeterydc.org |access-date=August 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024003024/https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/564.pdf |archive-date=October 24, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> Gorman's wife became ill soon after his death, and died on June 21, 1910.<ref name="wpHattie" />

=== Legacy ===
[[Gorman, Maryland]] and [[Gormania, West Virginia]], are named after him,<ref>{{cite book |title=Garrett County |first=Albert L. |last=Feldstein |page=78 |year=2006 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=9780738542669}}</ref> as is Gorman Road in North Laurel.<ref name="naming">{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1997/07/10/board-approves-names-for-2-new-elementaries-schools-in-north-laurel-glenelg-to-open-next-year/ |title=Board approves names for 2 new elementaries Schools in North Laurel, Glenelg to open next year |date=July 10, 1997 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |first=Howard |last=Libit |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun}}</ref> An elementary school near this road is named "Gorman Crossing".<ref name="naming" />

The repair ship [[USS Tutuila (ARG-4)|USS ''Tutuila'']] was originally named SS ''Arthur P. Gorman'' in August 1943.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/tutuila-ii.html |title=Tutuila II |work=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |publisher=Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=February 22, 2018}}</ref>

In 2000, a proposed neighborhood within the [[Kings Contrivance, Columbia, Maryland|Kings Contrivance section]] of [[Columbia, Maryland]] was to be named "Gorman's Promise," but the naming was canceled after consideration of Gorman's involvement in the disenfranchisement of black voters.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2000/03/17/rouse-co-backtracks-on-neighborhood-name-plan-to-honor-ex-senator-opposed-by-black-leaders/ |title=Rouse Co. backtracks on neighborhood name |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |last=Atwood |first=Liz |date=March 17, 2000 |access-date=August 26, 2013}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
*{{cite book |last=Dodge |first=Andrew R. |title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774–2005 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |date=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC |isbn=9780160731761}}
*Lambert, John R.  ''Arthur Pue Gorman'' (1953), the standard scholarly biography
** Lambert, "Arthur Pue Gorman: Practical Politician" (PhD dissertation, Princeton University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1947. 0010944), online at academic libraries.

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*[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7qn6899r;view=1up;seq=11 Arthur Pue Gorman, late a senator from Maryland, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1907]

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