Elias Glenn (August 26, 1769 – January 6, 1846) was a United States district judge of the

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Education and career

Born on August 26, 1769, in Elkton,

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, Glenn entered private practice in

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. He was a Judge for the

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Court. He was

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for the District of Maryland from 1812 to 1824.

Federal judicial service

Glenn received a

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from President

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on August 31, 1824, to a seat on the

vacated by Judge Theodorick Bland. He was nominated to the same position by President Monroe on December 16, 1824. He was confirmed by the

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on January 3, 1825, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on April 1, 1836, due to his resignation.

Later career and death

Following his resignation from the federal bench, Glenn resumed private practice in Baltimore from 1836 to 1846. He died on January 6, 1846, in Baltimore.

Family

Glenn's son,

William Wilkins Glenn William Wilkins Glenn (July 20, 1824 - June 24, 1876) was a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and Confederate sympathizer from Baltimore, Maryland. Portions of his estate helped establish the town of Glen Burnie, Maryland.

, was a journalist and newspaper proprietor who was jailed for his Confederate sympathies.Glenn, William Wilkins, Bayly Ellen Marks, and Mark Norton Schatz, ''Between North and South: A Maryland Journalist Views the Civil War: the Narrative of William Wilkins Glenn, 1861-1869''. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.

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