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Lawyers and Poetry

James McCauley

(1809- )
Maryland

"McCauley, James, lawyer, jurist, state legisltor, poet, was born Aug. 23, 1809, in Cecil county, Md. He was a county surveyor and register of wills; has served as a member of the Maryland state legislature; and was five times elected judge. He was a lawyer of Leeds, Md.; contributed extensively both prose and verse to current literature." [Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 630 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)]

James McCauley
The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County Maryland