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This is an excerpt taken from an essay at the Maryland Archives. I've bolded the important points:
"James Tilghman, a justice of the Court of Appeals representing Queen Anne’s County died, so Wright resigned as governor on May 6, 1809, in anticipation of being selected to fill the vacancy." ... "The Council Proceedings for May 8, 1809 contain the terse note that 'His Excellency Robert Wright, Esquire, having resigned on Saturday the sixth Instant, the honorable James Butcher qualified as Governor before Gideon White, one of the Justices of the Peace of Anne Arundel County in the Council Room in the presence of the Members of the Council agreeably to the thirty-second section of the Constitution and Form of Government.' A month later, or on June 5, 1809, 'at a meeting of the General Assembly of Maryland pursuant to a Proclamation signed by His Excellency James Butcher, Esquire, for the purpose of appointing a Governor for the residue of the year in the room of Robert Wright, resigned, they proceeded to said appointment when Honorable Edward Lloyd was appointed.' [1]
