Governor of Maryland, elected to Maryland Assembly, Naval Commander of Lord Baltimore's warship. Leader of the rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689. He attended Oxford University and became an Anglican priest. Came to Maryland in 1672 and renounced his ministry when he married Susannah Slye, daughter of Thomas Gerrard, an important man in the colony. Served as Captain of the militia and a Justice in Saint Mary's County. He led several rebellions against the Maryland government which was run by Catholic's. He led a rebellion in defense of the Protestant religion because Maryland's government would not recognize the new Protestant King and Queen of England, William and Mary. With an army of seven hundred men they attacked the state house and marched into St. Mary's and forced the council to surrender power to them. Coode and his Puritans set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicism and Anglicanism and became in control of the colony. In the following years, Coode was always finding dissatisfaction with the colonial government and participated in two more uprisings against the colonial leadership. He was outspoken, a rebel and one of the most colorful figures in American colonial history. Coode participated in at least five significant opposition movements against established authority and was a primary figure in three of them. The revolution of 1689 is sometimes called "Coode's Rebellion." Men associated Coode with the great and notorious rebels and revolutionary leaders of the past. Charles Calvert called Coode a rank Baconist. He was defiant, quick to anger, argumentative, boastful, theatrical and given to a weakness for alcohol. At the same time, he could be charming, was a man of considerable talents to whom fellow colonists repeatedly looked for leadership. In 1699, he was accused of speaking out against the Christian faith and put on trial. Coode was found guilty, however, his brother-in-law, Nathanial Blakiston was Governor at the time and pardoned him in respect for his past service in the Rebellion of 1689. Coode was popular with the residents of Maryland who attempted to elect him to the assembly, but the council kept him out of government. His wife, Susannah, was fifteen years his senior, and it is said when her husband was yanked out of bed and arrested during one of his rebellions, this hastened her death. It's said, Mrs. Coode did hector my Lord Baltimore at a rate I never heard from a woman before. Later it was reported that Thomas Carvile of St. Mary's County claimed his Lordship the Lord Proprietary and his rogues were the cause of Mrs. Coode's death because of their accusations against her husband. John Coode died February or March of 1709. There is no record available of where he died or is buried, but it is suspected it is in either Maryland or Virginia. He spent the remainder of his live outside of politics.