The most important events of his administration were the adoption of the Maryland Constitution of 1851; the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to the Ohio River, and a reduction of the state tax rate from 25 cents to 15 cents on a $100.
St. Louis | St. Louis Cardinals | Louis Armstrong | Louis Vuitton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Louis XIV of France | St. Louis County, Minnesota | Joe Louis | Louis IX of France | Louis Pasteur | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Saint Louis University | Washington University in St. Louis | Jacques-Louis David | Louis XIII of France | Louis XV of France | St. Louis Rams | Saint Louis | Rob Lowe | Louis XVI of France | Louis Agassiz | Nick Lowe | Lowe's | Louis the Pious | St. Louis Blues | Louis Andriessen | Zane Lowe | Spirit of St. Louis | Louis Comfort Tiffany | Louis |
After the bloodshed in Baltimore, involving Massachusetts troops which were fired on while marching between railroad stations, on April 19, 1861, Baltimore Mayor George William Brown, Marshal George P. Kane, and former Governor Enoch Louis Lowe requested that Hicks burn the railroad bridges leading to Baltimore, in order to prevent further troops from entering the state.