Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (born 1690)

Benjamin Tasker Sr.

American politician (c1690–1768)

Benjamin Tasker Sr. was the 21st Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753. He also occupied a number of other significant colonial offices, including, on various occasions, being elected Mayor of Annapolis.

List of colonial governors of Maryland

Maryland began as a proprietary colony of the Catholic Calvert family, the Lords Baltimore under a royal charter, and its first eight governors were appointed by them. When the Catholic King of England, James II, was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution, the Calverts lost their…