Editing Recorder of deeds (section)

==Recorders/registers of deeds who became prominent in politics==

=== District of Columbia ===
*[[Simon Wolf]]: Recorder of Deeds for the [[District of Columbia]], 1869–1878
*[[George A. Sheridan]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, May 1878 - May 1881
*[[Frederick Douglass]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, May 1881 – August 1886<ref name="plaindealer">White Folks, like Colored Folks, Have Their Troubles : Officers in the Twentieth Are Jealous of Funston. Plaindealer (Topeka, Kansas). Friday, October 27, 1899. Volume: I. Issue: 43   Page: 1. Piece: One of Four</ref>
*[[James Campbell Matthews]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, August 1886 – March 1887<ref name="plaindealer" />
*[[James M. Trotter]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, March 1887 – February 1890<ref name="plaindealer" />
*[[Blanche Bruce|Blanche Kelso Bruce]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, February 1890–1893<ref name="plaindealer" />
*[[C. H. J. Taylor]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1894–1896<ref name="plaindealer" />
*[[Henry Plummer Cheatham]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1897–1901<ref name="plaindealer" />
*[[John C. Dancy]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1901–1910<ref>Meier, August. Negro thought in America, 1880–1915: Racial ideologies in the age of Booker T. Washington. Vol. 118. University of Michigan Press, 1963. pp. 234, 252</ref>
*[[Henry Lincoln Johnson]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1910 - 1913
*John F. Costello: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, June 1916 - 1921<ref>{{Citation |last=Annonces |first=Vieilles |title=President Wilson Appoints White Democrat as Recorder of Deeds for DC, A Position Held for More Than A Generation by Black Men - from The Washington Post, June 9, 1916 |date=2021-09-18 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/51489845193/ |access-date=2024-08-26}}</ref>
*[[Arthur G. Froe]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1922 - September 1930
*Jefferson S. Coage: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, October 1930 - February 1934
*[[William J. Thompkins]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, March 1934 – 1944<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6194192/the_pittsburgh_courier/|title=Clipping from The Pittsburgh Courier|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=12 August 1944|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6194215/the_pittsburgh_courier/|title=Clipping from The Pittsburgh Courier|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=12 August 1944|page=5}}</ref>
*[[Marshall L. Shepard]]: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1944 – 1951
*Vacant as Senate took no action on President Truman's nomination of Earl Wayne Beck, 1951 - June 1952
*President Truman signs S. 2871 which became Public Law 379, 82d Congress (66 Stat. 129), June 1952. Commissioners of DC to fill the job as a civil service position. Recorder of Deeds for DC must be a DC resident for at least 5 years immediately before their appointment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Relating to the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia {{!}} Harry S. Truman |url=https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/160/statement-president-upon-signing-bill-relating-office-recorder-deeds |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=www.trumanlibrary.gov}}</ref>

===Elsewhere in the US===
*[[Joseph Montgomery]]: Recorder of Deeds and Register of Wills, [[Dauphin County, Pennsylvania]], 1785–94
*[[Samuel P. Morrill]]: Register of Deeds for [[Franklin County, Maine]], 1857–67
*[[Hugh McLaughlin (politician)]], Register of Deeds for [[Kings County, New York]], for three consecutive terms from 1861
*[[Charles E. Townsend]]: Register of Deeds for [[Jackson County, Michigan]], 1886–97
*[[William S. Vare]]: Recorder of Deeds for [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], 1902–12
*[[Edward Boland]]: Register of Deeds for [[Hampden County, Massachusetts]], 1941–52
*[[Carol Moseley Braun]]: Recorder of Deeds for [[Cook County, Illinois]], 1988–92
*[[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]]: Recorder of Deeds for [[Cook County, Illinois]], 1993–99
*[[Ryan Costello]]: Recorder of Deeds for [[Chester County, Pennsylvania]], 2008–11
*[[Zach Payne]]: Recorder of Deeds for [[Clark County, Indiana]], 2015–18

===Spain===
*[[Mariano Rajoy]]: Recorder of Deeds first for [[Padrón]], then for [[Villafranca del Bierzo]], and lately for [[Santa Pola]], [[Spain]]; from 1979 until the present