Edgar Allan Poe (attorney general)

Edgar Allan Poe (1871 to 1961) was a Maryland lawyer who served as Attorney General of the State of Maryland from 1911 to 1915 and who had earlier been a college football and lacrosse player at Princeton University. He was born in Baltimore on 15 September 1871 and was named for a famous relative, the poet of the same name. At Princeton he played varsity football and was quarterback of the unbeaten 1889 team, which finished 10 and 0, and he was named quarterback of the very first All-America college football team that year. He also played men's lacrosse at Princeton and was team captain. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1891, took a law degree at the University of Maryland in 1893, and was known for the rest of his life as one of the Poe brothers of Princeton because of his football legacy.