Attorneys-General of Maryland

Luther Martin ................................................1778
William Pinkney............................................ 1805
John Thomas Mason. .......................................... 1806
John Johnson................................................. 1806
John Montgomery ..............................................1811
Luther Martin.................................................1818
Nathaniel Williams, Assistant Attorney-General. ................. .1820
Thomas B. Dorsey. ............................................ 1822
Thomas Kell..................................................1824
Roger B. Taney. .............................................. 1827
Josiah Bayley................................................. 1831
George R. Richardson.......................................... 1845
Robert J. Brent ...............................................1851
Alexander Kandall............................................1864
Isaac D. Jones ................................................1867
Andrew K. Syester. ........................................... 1871
Charles J. M. Gwynn.......................................... 1875
Charles B. Roberts. ............................................ 1883
William Pinkney Whyte. ...................................... .1887
John P. Poe. ........................................ ........ .1891
Harry M. Clabaugh. .......................................... .1896
George E. Gaither, Jr......................................... .1899
Isidor Rayner.................................................1900
William S. Bryan, Jr.......................................... 1904
Isaac Lobe Strans. ............................................ 1908
Edgar Allan Poe. ............................................. 1912

The Land Office

John Lewger, Member of the Council, officer in charge of land

grants, etc................................................. 1637
John Lankford, "daring his natural life"—Surveyor-General. .... .1641
Robert Clarke, Surveyor-General................................ 1648
Jerome Clarke, Surveyor-General ................................1664
Baker Brooke, Surveyor-General................................ 1674
Vincent Lowe, Surveyor-General. ......................... 1679 to 1680

In 1680 the Land Office was created, mill a Register on each Shore.

John Llewellin, Register for Western Shore.
Vachel Downes, Register for Eastern Shore.
Henry Darnal, Register ........................................1688
Charles Carroll, Register .......................................1712
Edward Griffith, Register .......................................1715
Edmund Jennings, Judge and Register. .......................... 1732
Levin Gale, Judge and Register. ................................ 1738
Philip Thomas, Judge and Register. ............................. 1743
Benj. Tasker and Benj. Young, Judges and Registers............ 1746
Benj. Young and George Stuart, Judges and Registers. .......... .1747
Benedict Calvert and George Stuart, Judges and Registers........1756
St. George Peale, Register. ..................................... 1777
John Calahan, Register. ........................................ 1779
John Kilty, Register. .......................................... 1806
John Brewer, Register .........................................1812
G. G. Brewer, Register. ........................................ 1827

The office of Attorney-General was abolished by the Constitution of 1851,
but was re-established by the Constitution of 1864.