Margaret Brent

  • Lived from 1601-1671
  • Requested for the right to vote - for two votes - in front of the Assembly in the St. Mary's Colony
  • Businesswoman, landowner
  • Governor Leonard Calvert granted her executor of his will
  • Never married

Source: http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/002100/002177/html/brochure.html

Margaret Brent Hall

  • Houses philosophy and religious studies departments
  • Was moved from the historic side of St. Mary's City to close to the Campus Center in 2011

Source: http://somd.com/news/headlines/2011/14317.php and 

Other Namesakes

  • Margaret Brent Middle School in Helen, MD
  • SMCM DeSousa-Brent Scholars Program
  • University of Maryland Margaret Brent Hall
  • Margaret Brent Exhibit at St. Mary's City & St. John's Site Museum
  • Jones Point Park , VA historical marker
  • The Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award established by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession
  • Historical highway marker in Virginia, along historic Route 1
  • Margaret Brent Elementary School in Stafford, VA
  • In first group of women inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Brent