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636/Maryland Manual
1858 ........................... James R. Partridge
1861 ........................ Grayson Eichelberger
1861 ............................ Thomas J. Wilson
1862 ............................... William B. Hill
1866 ............................... JohnM.Carter
1869 ......................... Richard C. Hollyday
1872 ....................... John Thomson Mason
1873 ......................... Richard C. Hollyday
1880 .............................. James T. Briscoe
1884 ......................... Richard C. Hollyday
1884 ........................... George B. Milligan
1886 ........................ Edward W. Leeompte
1893 ........................... William T. Brantly
1894 ................................... EdwinGott
1896 .............................. Richard Dallam
1899 ........................... George E. Loweree
1900 ............................. Wilfred Bateman
1904 ............................ Oswald Tilghman
1908 ........................ N. Winslow Williams
1912 ............................ Robert P. Graham
1916 ........................ Thomas W. Simmons
1919 .......................... George L. Radcliffe
1920 ............................ Philip B. Perlman
1923 ................................. E.BrookeLee
1925 ................... David C. Winebrenner III
1935 .......................... Thomas L. Dawson
1936 .................................. E.RayJones
1939 ............................. John B. Gontrum
1939 ............................... Francis Petrott
1941 .................................. MilesT.Tull
1941 .......................... Thomas Eimo Jones
1946 .................... William J. McWilliams22
1946 ........................... Edward G. Chaney
1947 ................................. JohnB.Funk
1947 ........................ Bertram Lee Boone II
1949 ............................ Vivian V. Simpson
1951 ............................... JohnR.Reeves
1955 ........................... Blanchard Randall
1957 ......................... Claude B. Hellmann
1959 ............................. Thomas B. Finan
1961 ............................ Lloyd L. Simpkins
1967 ............................... C. Stanley Blair
1969 ................................... Blair Lee III
1971 ............................ Fred L. Wineland
1982 ............................. Patricia G. Holtz
1983- ........................ LorraineM.Sheehan
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
The office of Attorney General was established by
the Constitution of 1776, sec. 48. The Attorney
General was appointed by the Governor with the
advice and consent of the Governor's Council. In
1817 the office was abolished by constitutional
22 Appointed assistant to the secretary of state during the absence of
Thomas Eimo Jones April 20, 1944-February 7, 1946. McWilliams
actually held the title only two days, February 7-8, 1946.
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amendment (Chapter 247, Acts of 1816, ratified
Oct. 1817). In 1818 the General Assembly recreated
the office by statute (Chapter 146, Acts of 1817). By
1851 the Attorney General's duties were fulfilled by
the State's Attorney (Const. 1851, Art. 5, sec. 3).
The office was reestablished by the Constitution of
1864 (Art. 5, sec. 1). The Attorney General was
elected by the eligible voters of the State for a four-
year term. To be eligible for office, he was required
to have resided and practiced law in the State for
seven years. By the 1867 Constitution the residency
and law practice requirements were raised to ten
years (Art. 5, sec. 4).
1778 ................................ Luther Martin
1805 ............................. William Pinkney
1806 ....................... John Thomson Mason
1806 ................................. John Johnson
1811 ........................... John Montgomery
1818 .............................. Luther Martin"
1822 ........................ Thomas Beale Dorsey
1824 .................................. ThomasKell
1827 ......................... Roger Brooke Taney
1831 .................................. JosiahBayly
1846 ....................... George R. Richardson
1851 ............................. Robert J. Brent24
1865 ........................... Alexander Randall
1867 ................................ Isaac D.Jones
1871 ........................... Andrew K. Syester
1875 ......................... CharlesJ.M.Gwinn
1883 ....................... Charles Boyle Roberts
1887 ..................... William Pinkney Whyte
1891 ................................... JohnP.Poe
1895 .......................... Harry M. Clabaugh
1899 ....................... GeorgeR.Gaither.Jr.
1899 ................................. IsidorRayner
1903 ......................... William S. Bryan, Jr.
1907 ............................ Isaac Lobe Strauss
1911 .............................. EdgarAllanPoe
1915 ............................. Albert C. Ritchie
1918 ................................ OgleMarbury
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 ............................... HallHammond
1952 ........................ Edward D. E. Rollins
1954 .......................... C. Ferdinand Sybert
1961 ............................. ThomasB.Finan
1966 ........................... Robert C. Murphy
"During the physical incapacity of Luther Martin, 1821-22, the
governor appointed Nathaniel Williams, Assistant Attorney Gener-
al, to act as Attorney General.
24 The office of Attorney General was abolished by the Constitution
Sec. 1).
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