Background
Warfield was born on 3 June 1924. He was born at his family manor Oakdale, where his grandfather lived as Governor of Maryland.
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Edwin Edwin Warfield III
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Education
Warfield attended the Gilman School, then graduated in 1942 from the Kent School in Connecticut. He later attended Cornell University and the University of Maryland where he earned a Bachelor of Surgery in Agriculture.
Career
Warfield was elected to the Howard General Assembly House of Delegates in 1963, but his slate lost all county council seats to republicans on slow growth ballots that later approved the 100,000 person development of Columbia, Maryland in his home county. Warfield, William Hanna and senator James A. Clark, Junior. would be the approvers of state money to provide road water and sewer for the Rouse project He served as a until 1970.
He was chair of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee from 1963-1970.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943. Serving in the Pacific theater flying P-51Mustangs through World World War World War II In 1950 he became the first Commander of the Maryland National Guard unit at Martin State Airport.
From 1970 to 1980 he held the position of Adjutant general of Maryland. He sat on the Governor"s Commission on the Expansion of the University of Maryland.
He created the Warfield Commission on higher education in Maryland, which recommended consolidating state colleges under the University of Maryland.
He was also part of the World World War II Memorial Commission. Warfield Died of congestive heart failure 4 October 1999.
