William Grafton Dulany Worthington (1785–1856), lawyer, represented the city of Baltimore in the Maryland House of Delegates, 1809–10 and 1823–24, and he held a seat in the state senate, 1814–15. He was a Treasury Department clerk in 1816, a founder and the first recorder of the American Colonization Society, 1816–17, and a special agent of the State Department charged with promoting better commercial relations with Argentina, Chile, and Peru, 1817–19, and secretary and acting territorial governor of East Florida, 1821–22. Worthington returned to Maryland in the latter year and declined appointments as marshal of the Superior Court of East Florida in April 1822 and commissioner of land titles there two years later. During his second term in the Maryland House of Delegates, he strongly supported a bill to grant legal equality to Maryland’s small Jewish population (Papenfuse, Maryland Public Officials description begins Edward C. Papenfuse and others, eds., An Historical List of Public Officials of Maryland, 1990– , 1 vol. description ends , 1:43, 143, 144; Henry Noble Sherwood, “The Formation of the American Colonization Society,” Journal of Negro History 2 [1917]: 227–8n; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, 1934–75, 28 vols. description ends , 22:35, 44–5, 55–6, 104, 486, 506, 958; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 3:295, 302, 388 [17 Apr., 3 May 1822, 26 May 1824]; Isaac M. Fein, The Making of An American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773 to 1920 [1971], 31–4, 268).