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A chronological list of past Maryland attorneys general is below.

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Douglas F. Gansler 2007 – 2014
J. Joseph Curran, Jr. 1987 – 2007
Stephen H. Sachs 1979 – 1987
Francis B. Burch 1966 – 1978
Robert C. Murphy 1966
Thomas B. Finan 1961 – 1966
C. Ferdinand Sybert 1954 – 1961
Edward D.E. Rollins 1952 – 1954
Hall Hammond 1946 – 1952
William Curran 1945 – 1946
William C. Walsh 1938 – 1945
Herbert R. O’conor 1934 – 1938
William Prestion Lane, Jr. 1930 – 1934
Thomas H. Robinson 1923 – 1930
Alexander Armstrong 1919 – 1923
Ogle Marbury 1919
Albert C. Ritchie 1915 – 1919
Edgar Allan Poe 1911 – 1915
Isaac Lobe Straus 1907 – 1911
William Shepard Bryan, Jr. 1903 – 1911
Isidor Rayner 1899 – 1903
George Riggs Gaither, Jr. 1899
Harry M. Clabaugh 1895 – 1899
John Prentiss Poe 1891 – 1895
William Pinkney Whyte 1887 – 1891
Charles Boyle Roberts 1883 – 1887
Charles J.M. Gwinn 1875 – 1883
Andrew K. Syester 1871 – 1875
Isaac Dashiell Jones 1867 – 1871
Alexander Randall 1864 – 1867
Robert J. Brent 1851
George R. Richardson 1846 – 1851
Josiah Bayly 1831 – 1846
Roger B. Taney 1827 – 1831
Thomas Kell 1824 – 1827
Thomas Beale Dorsey 1822 – 1824
Luther Martin 1818 – 1827
John Montgomery 1811 – 1818
John Johnson, Sr. 1806 – 1811
John Thomason Mason 1806
William Pinkney 1805 – 1806
Luther Martin 1778 – 1805
James Tilghman 1777 – 1778

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