page_title: Arthur Pue Gorman
section_title: U.S. Senator
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Pue Gorman / U.S. Senator
caption_attribution_description: English: Arthur Pue Gorman 1902
context_page_description: Arthur Pue Gorman was an American baseball player and politician. He served as United States Senator from Maryland from 1881 to 1899 and again from 1903 until his death. He was a prominent leader of the Bourbon Democrat faction of the Democratic Party.
  As a young man, Gorman was a founding member of the original Washington Nationals of the National Association, the first American baseball team, and became one of the nation's star players by 1864. Later in life, he served as a member of the Mills Commission which investigated the origins of the sport.
context_section_description: In 1880, the Maryland legislature elected Gorman to the United States Senate, where he soon became a leader of the Bourbon Democrats. The New York Times reported that the previous legislative election was influenced by large groups of "ward rounders" who shot and wounded black Republican voters at the Howard County polls.
  In 1884, Gorman actively supported Grover Cleveland's presidential campaign.
  He served as the Democratic caucus chairman from 1890 to 1898. He chaired the Committee on Printing (53rd Congress) and served on the Committee on Private Land Claims (55th Congress).
  He played a major role in financial and tariff legislation, especially the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894, which successfully lowered tariffs in response to the McKinley Act of 1890, but thwarted President Cleveland's effort at completely or nearly free trade.
  
  Gorman was reelected twice more in 1886 and 1892 but was defeated for re-election in 1898, losing to Louis E. McComas. After his defeat, Gorman campaigned for Maryland's other U.S. Senate seat and was elected again by the Legislature in 1902. He was again appointed as the Democratic Caucus Chairman, which he held from 1903 to 1906.
  Gorman was briefly a candidate for U.S. President in 1892 and 1904.
caption: Satirical cartoon depicting Gorman leading Democrats in the 1902 election
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