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Arthur Pue Gorman (March 11, 1839June 4, 1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1881 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1906. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1869 to 1875, and the Maryland State Senate to 1881. He was a prominent leader of the Democratic Party and later served as a member of the "Mills Commission" which investigated the origins of baseball.〔 ==Early life and career== Gorman was born in Woodstock, Maryland on March 11, 1839, to parents Peter and Elizabeth A. Gorman (née Brown). The oldest of five children, he was named after the family's physician, Dr. Arthur Pue.〔 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.〔 Arthur's immediate family, including younger brother William Henry Gorman, moved to Laurel, Maryland in 1848, where they had a farm.〔 Arthur had attended public schools though there were none in Laurel; Gorman's father hired a succession of tutors until arranging with Congressman William T. Hamilton and Edward Hammond a position for his son as a U.S. Senate page at age 11 in 1850.〔 Gorman became friends with Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas (famous regular Democratic presidential candidate in the split Election of 1860 versus Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln whom he earlier debated in a series of debates for the Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate), who made him his private secretary.〔 Gorman subsequently served the U.S. Senate in various offices as page, messenger, Assistant Doorkeeper, Assistant Postmaster, and finally Postmaster. At the age of 20 in 1859, Gorman was one of the founding members of the Washington Nationals Base Ball Club, the first official baseball team in America, and rose to become a star by the end of the Civil War era. Eventually he would become president of the National Association of Base Ball Players. In September 1866, Gorman was removed from his Senate Office of Postmaster and was immediately appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth Congressional District of Maryland.〔 Gorman married a widow, Hannah "Hattie" Donagan (1836–1910, formerly Schwartz), on March 28, 1867. They would have six children: Haddie, Ada, Grace, Arthur P. Jr., Anne Elizabeth (Bessie), and Mary.〔 In 1890, Gorman's wife and daughter Grace escaped a fire at their Laurel house "Fairview" that his father built; a new Queen Anne style house was built in its place. Gorman was closely aligned with Baltimore political leader Isaac Freeman Rasin. Rasin helped support Oden Bowie's rival William Pinkney Whyte in the 1871 Maryland Governor race with vote buying in Baltimore city. Whyte in turn gave Gorman a position as director of the C&O Canal. Gorman served as a director and eventually president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906) )〕 the canal ran along the north shore of the Potomac River from Georgetown above Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Pue Gorman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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