Edgar Allan Poe (September 15, 1871 – November 29, 1961) was Attorney General of the State of Maryland from 1911 to 1915.

He was born in Baltimore, the son of former Maryland Attorney General John Prentiss Poe.

He was named for his great uncle and second cousin, twice removed, author Edgar Allan Poe, who died in 1849.

According to the story, "the alumnus looked at him in astonishment and replied, 'He is the great Edgar Allan Poe.

[3][6] As city solicitor, he defended an ordinance that would enshrine segregation between blacks and whites in housing.

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 World War I while serving as a U.S. Marine Corps second lieutenant in France.

[5] The Poe family lived at Stemmer Run in Green Spring Valley in Baltimore.