Peter Angelos
| Peter Angelos | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 4, 1930 Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Residence | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Education | University of Baltimore School of Law |
| Occupation |
Lawyer, Owner: MLB, Baltimore Orioles, Racehorse owner/breeder |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Georgia K. |
| Children | Louis, John P. Angelos grandchild, Peter C. Angelos |
| Honors | Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1996) |
Peter G. Angelos (born July 4, 1930) is an American trial lawyer.
Angelos is also the majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a baseball team in the American League East Division.
Angelos is the son of John (a bar owner) and Frances Angelos, who immigrated to the United States from Menetes, Karpathos, Greece. Peter Angelos married Georgia Kousouris in 1966, and they had two children together, John and Louis. Angelos' family settled in the working-class neighborhood of Highlandtown, and lived in a row house. Angelos' father owned a local tavern, and his father mostly spoke Greek at home.
After graduating from Patterson Park High School, Angelos attended the University of Baltimore, where he earned a bachelor's degree. He then attended law school at night at the University of Baltimore School of Law, studying so conscientiously that he was named class valedictorian. Angelos passed the bar in 1961 and opened an office specializing in handling product-liability cases for employees, almost always on a contingency basis. In one of his most celebrated cases, he represented some 8,700 steelworkers, shipyard workers, and manufacturers' employees in a consolidated-action asbestos poisoning suit that was partially settled in 1992. Angelos' take from that litigation alone has been estimated at $330 million.
He served a brief stint on the Baltimore City Council and ran for mayor on the city's first interracial ticket in 1967, and lost.
Angelos also achieved considerable success representing the state of Maryland in a suit against Philip Morris and suing Wyeth, the makers of part of the diet pill combination fen-phen. Angelos's law firm currently has offices in Baltimore; Philadelphia; Cumberland, Maryland; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; and Knoxville, Tennessee. The headquarters of the firm is housed in the historic One Charles Center building in downtown Baltimore, which was bought by Angelos for $6 million in 1996, and was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1962.
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