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Rush Wickes wrote ...
> Now I know who Millard Tydings (for whom the I-95 bridge over the
> Susquehanna is named) is in the state's history.  He was a senator for
> the state during the early 1950's.  Can anyone identify something
> significant that state Gov. William Preston Lane (Chesapeake Bay
> Bridge namesake) did while in office?

Why Lane's name and some interesting other name associations for 
local bridges are given at:

http://washington.sidewalk.com/link/19737

"Historic links and political connections"

�By�S.J. Ackerman, Sidewalk Contributor

including, e.g.:

"Cabin John Bridge, MacArthur Boulevard over Cabin John Creek, Glen Echo,
Md. The 220-foot structure, the longest stone arch span in the world, still
conceals pipes bringing Potomac River water to Washington reservoirs. The
name of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who had approved the work a
decade earlier, was effaced from the dedication tablet in 1862 owing to his
activities as president of the Confederacy."