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Covington was born in Easton, Maryland , and attended the Maryland Military Academy at Oxford. He entered the law department of the University Of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1891 , attending at the same time special lectures in history, literature, and economics, and graduated in 1894 . Soon thereafter, Covington began to practice of law in Easton. He was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the Maryland State Senate in 1901 , and served as State’s attorney for Talbot County, Maryland from 1903 to 1908 . He was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1908 and served the 1st Congressional District of Maryland from March 4 , 1909 until his resignation on September 30 , 1914, to accept the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court Of The District Of Columbia . Covington served as chief justice of that court from October 1 , 1914, to June 1 , 1918, when he resigned to practice law in Washington, D.C. . He was a professor of law at Georgetown University from 1914 to 1919 , and was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as a member of the United States Railroad Commission in January 1918 . Covington died in Washington, D.C., and is interred in Spring Hill Cemetery of Easton. REFERENCE
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