Daniel Martin (politician)

Daniel Martin was born at "The Wilderness", near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland, in December 1780.

[1][2] He was the son of Nicholas and Hannah (Oldham) Martin, believed to have been a prominent merchant in Talbot County.

He was elected governor in January 1829, defeating Colonel George E. Martin by a margin of 52 to 38 votes.

He fell from his horse dead, at noon on July 11, 1831, aged fifty, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton.

[2] The legend that Martin fell dead from his horse exactly at noon after having a premonition for the previous three nights that his deceased mother had appeared to him in a dream telling him that on the third day following her first appearance to him, he would be "called home" at noon is recounted in Tilghman's History of Talbot Co. Md.