James Lawrence, who was killed in action during the War of 1812 while commanding the frigate USS Chesapeake.

[3] Mortally wounded, he gave his men the famous last order, "Don't give up the ship."

[5] As of the 2010 United States census, there were 16,833 people, 6,130 households, and 4,056 families living in the county.

It did not vote for a losing Republican candidate until Wendell Willkie carried the county in 1940 due to isolationist sentiment.

The only Democrat to gain an absolute majority in the county since 1936 has been Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton obtained pluralities in both 1992 and 1996.