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dent. In January, 1906, he became third Vice-President of
the American Bonding Company, and subsequently second
Vice-President. Shortly after the merger between the
Fidelity and Deposit Company and the American Bonding
Company in 1913, he became president of the American Bond-
ing Company, which, according to the provisions of the
merger, was in liquidation. He was also elected as one of the
Vice-Presidents of the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Mary-
land. These positions he was holding when appointed Secre-
tary of State.
In 1916, he was appointed a member of the Board of Liquor
License Commissioners tor Baltimore City, by Governor Har-
rington and was re-appointed two years later, He resigned
this position on October 15th, 1919, to become Secretary of
State of Maryland, succeeding Thomas W. Simmons, resigned.
Mr. Radcliffe is a member of the Maryland Council of De-
fense and chairman of the Historical Division of that body.
This committee has charge of the collection of data and the
preparation of records of activities of Maryland and Mary-
land men and women during the war. He is Recording Sec-
retary of the Maryland Historical Society, Treasurer of the
Maryland Branch of the League to Enforce Peace, and is
President of the Alumni Association of Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity.
He married on June 6th, 1906, Miss Mary McKim Marriott,
of Baltimore. They have one child, George Marriott, born
June 9,1919.
Attorney-General: ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG (Republican),
Hagerstown, Maryland
Alexander Armstrong was born in Hagerstown, Maryland,
on June 28th, 1877. His father was the late Alexander Arm-
strong for many years a practicing Attorney of Hagerstown.
and his mother who is also deceased, was, before her marriage,
Miss Elizabeth Key Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Bruce Scott, of Hagerstown. Mr. Armstrong attended the
public schools of Washington County, graduating from its
High School in 1895. He then entered. Princeton University,
receiving there the degree of A. B. in 1899, and the degree of
A. M. in 1900, and was later graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School in 1903 with a degree of LL. B.
Mr. Armstrong was admitted to the Bar of Maryland on Janu-
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