History of Kingston, (Howard County) Maryland United States of America

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George Robertson Dennis, senator, was born in White Haven, Somerset county, Md., April 8, 1822; son of John Upshur and Maria (Robertson) Dennis, and grandson of Judge Littleton and Elizabeth (Upshur) Dennis. Donnach Dennis, the first American ancestor, settled in Somerset county in 1666 and from him descended the Dennises of Maryland. George Robertson was graduated at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1839; from the medical department of the University of Virginia; and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. He practised medicine at Kingston, Md., for many years, later devoting himself to agriculture. In politics he was successively a Whig, a Native American, and after 1861, a Democrat. He was a delegate to the American national convention of 1856 which nominated Fillmore and Donelson; was vice-president of the Democratic national convention of 1868, which nominated Seymour and Blair; and was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at St. Louis in 1876 which nominated Tilden and Hendricks. He was a state senator in 1854 and in 1871; a state representative in 1867, and United States senator from Maryland, 1872-78. He died at Kingston, Md., Aug. 13, 1882.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Kingston, (Howard County) Maryland

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