740/Maryland Manual
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
1778 .. ............. Luther Martin
1805 .................. William Pinkney
1806 .............. John Thomson Mason
1806 .................... John Johnson
1811 ................. John Montgomery
1818 ...... Luther Martin^
1822 ............... Thomas Beale Dorsey
1824 .. .. ..... Thomas Kell
1827 ............... .Roger Brooke Taney
1831 ..................... Josiah Bayly
1846.. .... George R. Richardson
1851 ................. .Robert J. Brent"
1865 ................. Alexander Randall
1867 .................... Isaac D. Jones
1871 .. ......... .Andrew K. Syester
1875 ...... Charles J. J. Gwinn
1883 .............. Charles Boyle Roberts
1887 ............. William Pinkney Whyte
1891 ..................... .John P. Poe
1895 ................ Harry M. Clabaugh
1899 .............. George R. Gaither, Jr.
1899 .................... Isidor Rayner
1903 ............... William S. Bryan, Jr.
1907 ................. Isaac Lobe Strauss
1911 .................. Edgar Allan Poe
1915 ..... Albert C. Ritchie
1918 .................... Ogle Marbury
1919 ....,,,.....,.. Alexander Armstrong
1923 ............... Thomas H. Robinson
1930 .............. Wm. Preston Lane, Jr.
1934 ................ Herbert R. O'Conor
1938 ................. .William C. Walsh
1945 ................... William Curran
1946 ................... Hall Hammond
1952 Edward D. E. Rollins
1954 C. Ferdinand Sybert
1961 .... Thomas B. Finan
1966 ................. Robert C. Murphy
1966 .................. Francis B. Burch
1979, Jan. 1 only ............ John F. Oster
1979, Jan. 2 only .......... George A Nilson
1979 .................. Stephen H. Sachs
MARYLAND CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTIONS
MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION
THAT FRAMED THE FIRST STATE
CONSTITUTION, AUGUST 14-NO-
VEMBER 11,1776
MATTHEW TILGHMAN, President
GABRIEL DUVALL, Secretary
^Diinng the physical incapacity of Luther Martin, 1820-22, the
governor appointed Nathaniel Williams, Assistant Attorney
General, to act as Attorney General.
l7The office of Attorney General was abolished by the Consti-
tution of 1851 but was reestablished by the Constitution of
1864 (Art V, Sec 1)

Principal Officers of Marylan
Kent. Thomas Ringgold, William Ringgold, Jo-
seph Earle, Thomas Smyth.
Anne Arundel. John Hall, Brice T. B. Wor-
thington,^ Rezin Hammond, Samuel Chase,^
Charles Carroll, Barrister.^
Calvert. Benjamin Mackall IV, Charles Grahame
William Fitzhugh, John Mackall.
Charles. Robert T. Hooe, John Dent, Thoma
Semmes, John Parnham.
Baltimore. Charles Ridgely, Thomas Cocke:
Deye, John Stevenson, Peter Shepherd.
Talbot. Pollard Edmondson, John Gibson, Mat-
thew Tilghman, James Lloyd Chamberlaine.
Somerset. Gustavus Scott, George Scott, Willian
Horsey, Henry Lowes.
Dorchester. Robert Goldsborough, James Mur-
ray, John Ennalls, Joseph Ennalls.
Cecil. Joseph Gilpin, Patrick Ewing, Davi<
Smith, Benjamin Brevard.
Prince George's. Walter Bowie, Benjamin Hall
Osborn Sprigg, Luke Marbury.
Queen Anne's. Turbutt Wright, James Kent
William Bruff, Solomon Wright.
Worcester. Samuel Handy, Peter Chaille, Smiti
Bishop, Josiah Mitchell.
Frederick. Lower District: Thomas Sprig]
Wootton, Jonathan Wilson, William Bayly, Jr
Elisha Williams.
Frederick. Middle District: Adam Fischer, Uptoi
Sheredine, Christopher Edelen, David Shriver.
Frederick. Upper District: Samuel Beall, Sarnue
Hughes, John Stull, Henry Schnebly.
Caroline. Nathaniel Potter, William Richardson,^'
Richard Mason, Henry Dickinson, Thoma
Johnson.^
^Resigned August 27, \^^(> Worthington and Chase wei
reelected September 10, 1776 Hall was elected in place i
Carroll
"Elected colonel of a battalion of an flying camp from tt
Eastern Shore, August 16, 1776, and thereby vacated h
seat.
'"Elected August 30,1776.