Benjamin Tasker, Sr.

Benjamin Tasker, Sr.

Benjamin Tasker (1690 – June 19, 1768) was the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.cite book
last=Richardson
first=Hester Dorsey
title=Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families
publisher=Williams and Wilkins Company
date=1903
location=Baltimore, Maryland
pages=17-18
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=l_oMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage
doi=
id=
isbn=0806302968 ]

Tasker became a naval officer at Annapolis, Maryland in 1719 and served until 1742. He also served in the municipal and provincial government as: member and president of the Governor's Council, 1722-1768; member of the Lower House of the Maryland Legislature, 1715-1717, 1720-1722; member of the Upper House, 1722-1766, 1768; President of the Upper House, 1734-1766, 1768; Annapolis alderman, 1720, 1754-1766; Mayor of Annapolis, 1721-1722, 1726-1727, 1747-1748, 1750-1753, 1756-1757; President of the Council in 1752; acting governor of Maryland, 1753.

In 1731, Tasker was one of the founders of the Baltimore Ironworks Company.

Tasker married Ann Bladen in 1711. They had a son Benjamin Tasker, Jr. (1720-1760). Their daughter Anne Tasker (1723-1817), married the much older Samuel Ogle (1694-1752).cite book
last=Richardson
first=Hester Dorsey
title=Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families
publisher=Williams and Wilkins Company
date=1903
location=Baltimore, Maryland
pages=190-193
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=l_oMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage
doi=
id=
isbn=0806302968 ]

On his passing in 1768, Benjamin Tasker was buried in St. Anne's Churchyard in Annapolis.cite book
last=Ridgely
first=Helen West
title=Historic Graves Of Maryland And The District Of Columbia With The Inscriptions Appearing On The Tombstones In Most Of The Counties Of The State And In Washington And Georgetown
publisher=The Grafton Press
date=1908
location=New York
pages=5
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=81odAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage
doi=
id=
isbn=
oclc=23907948] His tombstone reads:

Benjamin Tasker Middle School, in Bowie, Maryland, is named after him.

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