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Arthur Leland Content '51

Jul. 30, 1930-Jul. 9, 2019

Arthur Leland Content ’51, a tax and real estate attorney in the Washington, D.C., area recently of Annapolis, Md., was born on July 30, 1930, in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son of the former Addie Alexander and Edward Content, a radio and acoustics engineer. Raised in Queens, N.Y., and Stamford, Conn., he prepared for college at Stamford High School.

After graduation from Hamilton, Content earned a J.D. on a full scholarship at the University of Chicago Law School in 1954. He was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in White Sands, N.M. After his discharge, he performed legal work in San Francisco before taking a job with the law firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, D.C., where he was eventually named senior partner.

Content formed his own firm, Content, Tatusko & Patterson, in 1978, specializing in real estate and tax law. He was responsible for many real estate developments in the DC area, including the Bethesda Air Rights buildings, The Chateau at New Hampshire Ave., Foxhall Crescents in Georgetown, and a number of early high-rise projects in Rosslyn, according to a published obituary.

Following his retirement in the mid-’90s, he moved to ­Annapolis. Content was a sailor, tennis player, and devotee of the Kennedy Center, and mentored many lawyers in tax and real estate law. He remained active as a pro bono financial adviser for disabled clients in Montgomery County and was also a generous philanthropist, the obituary noted.

Content died on July 9, 2019. He was 88 years old and is survived by five sons, including David Content ’82; five granddaughters; and two great-grandchildren. He had two marriages that ended in divorce, the first in 1960 to the former Mary McEwen, daughter of former Hamilton President Robert Ward McEwen, and the second in 1982 to the former Adrienne Dominguez.

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