Edward C. Papenfuse (born October 15, 1943) is the retired Maryland State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents.

[4] In addition he has created an interactive editorial website for archival documents which currently accesses over 500,000 pages of original source material on the experimental web sites, Remembering Baltimore, mdhistory.net, and transcribedoc.net.

Papenfuse has published numerous articles on archives and archival-related matters including a report on access to government records in the OAH Newsletter.

[9] Papenfuse was behind Maryland's 2007 acquisition of the original final draft of George Washington's military resignation speech (given in December 1783 to the Congress of the Confederation at Annapolis).

[10] After his speech, Washington folded the draft and gave it to a member of Congress, whose family had passed it down through future generations.