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Edgar Allan Poe (attorney general)

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from 1903 to November 1903. He was a lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Law from 1901 to 1913. He was with the firm Bartlett, Poe, Clagett & Bland in 1911. He also served as deputy city solicitor from 1903 to 1908 and as city solicitor from 1908 to 1911 for Baltimore City before
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After traveling for more than a year in Europe, Poe joined his father and brothers in the family's law firm, John P. Poe & Sons. He was with the law firm from 1895 to 1909. Poe was a lecturer at the
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second lieutenant in France. His wife died in 1928. In 1932, Poe married Mrs. Marie L. McIlhenny of Philadelphia. The Poe family lived at Stemmer Run in Green Spring Valley in Baltimore.
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at Princeton and was team captain. Poe was given the title of "one of 'the Poe Brothers of Princeton'" throughout his life due to his football legacy at Princeton.
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In 1895, Poe married Annie T. McKay, and they had a son, Edgar Allan Poe, Jr. His son, who also graduated from Princeton, was severely wounded in
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from 1897 to 1901. He was appointed as the Deputy State's Attorney for Baltimore in 1900, a position he held until 1903. Poe served as
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of the 1889 team, which finished with a perfect 10–0 record. After that season, Poe was named the quarterback of the very first
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Poe died on November 29, 1961, at his home in Chestnut Hill. He was buried at the church cemetery of
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About the office and list of Attorneys General of Maryland, from the Maryland Archives.
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in Baltimore and later became a vestryman at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in
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University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law alumni
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1889 Princeton Tigers football—national champions
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Walter Camp
Quarterback
Baltimore
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
Princeton
All-American
1889
Attorney General of Maryland
Isaac Lobe Straus
Albert Ritchie
St. Thomas Church
Democratic
John Prentiss Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Alma mater
Princeton University
BA
University of Maryland School of Law
LLB
Attorney General of the State of Maryland
Baltimore
John Prentiss Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Baltimore
John Prentiss Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Princeton University
varsity
football

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