1949 .................... Vivian V. Simpson
1951 ....................... John R. 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 .................. Lorraine M. Sheehan
1987- .................. Winfield M. Kelly, Jr.

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
amendment (Chapter 247, Acts of 1816, ratified
Oct. 1817). In 1818 the General Assembly recre-
ated 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 vot-
ers 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 Martin²³
1822 ................. Thomas Beale Dorsey
1824 ......................... Thomas Kell
1827 .................. Roger Brooke Taney
1831 .......................... Josiah Bayly
1846 ................. George R. Richardson
1851 ..................... Robert J. Brent²⁴
1865 .................... Alexander Randall
1867 ........................ Isaac D. Jones
1871 .................... Andrew K. Syester
1875 .................. Charles J. M. 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 ................ Jon F. Oster
1979, Jan. 2 only ........... George A. Nilson
1979 ..................... Stephen H. Sachs
1987- .................. J. Joseph Curran, Jr.

TREASURERS

Origins of the office of Treasurer date to the late
seventeenth century. Under crown rule a Treasur-
er of the Eastern Shore and a Treasurer of the
Western Shore were appointed by the Assembly
with the approval of Governor and Council. With
the return of proprietary rule in 1715, the Gover-
nor began to appoint the two treasurers. The dual
offices continued under the new State government
created by the Constitution of 1776 (sec. 13), with
treasurers appointed by the House of Delegates.
In 1843 the office of Treasurer of the Eastern
Shore was abolished and its duties were assumed
by the Treasurer of the Western Shore (Chapter
200, Acts of 1841; Chapter 239, Acts of 1842).
The 1851 Constitution created a single office of
Treasurer for the entire state. Appointed for a
two-year term, the Treasurer was chosen by joint
ballot of the two houses of the legislature at each
session (Const. 1851, Art. 6, sec. 1). In 1922 the
term was increased to four years (Chapter 140,