Edwin Warfield III (3 June 1924 – 4 October 1999) was a Maryland State Delegate from

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. Warfield was born at his family manor Oakdale, where his grandfather lived as Governor of Maryland. Warfield attended the

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, then graduated in 1942 from the

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in Connecticut. He later attended

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and the

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where he earned a B.S. in Agriculture. Warfield was elected to the Howard General Assembly House of Delegates in 1963, but his slate lost all county council seats to republicans on slow growth ballots that later approved the 100,000 person development of

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in his home county. Warfield,

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and senator James A. Clark, Jr. would be the approvers of state money to provide road water and sewer for the Rouse project. He was chair of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee from 1963-1970. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943; serving in the Pacific theater flying

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Mustangs through

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. In 1950 he became the commander of the Maryland National Guard unit at

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. From 1970 to 1980 he held the position of Adjutant general of Maryland. He was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of The Daily Record which was founded by his grandfather

Edwin Warfield Edwin Warfield (May 7, 1848March 31, 1920) was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, and the 45th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1904 to 1908. Early life Edwin Warfield was born to Alber ...

. He sat on the Governor's Commission on the Expansion of the

. He created the Warfield Commission on higher education in Maryland, which recommended consolidating state colleges under the University of Maryland. He was also part of the World War II Memorial Commission. He was also a member of the Howard County Hunt Club, Maryland Club, South River Club,

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, Bachelors Cotillion, St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Glenwood and St. John Episcopal Church in Ellicott City. Warfield died of congestive heart failure 4 October 1999.

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