LEGAL DEPARTMENT

Attorney General: WILLIAM CURRAN (Democrat), Balti-
more, Maryland.

William Curran was born in Baltimore City, April 12,
1885.

He received his elementary education at St. Patrick's
School, Baltimore, and graduated from the Baltimore City
College in 1904. Thereafter, he taught in the elementary
grades of public schools of Baltimore City for a number of
years while attending the night school classes of the Uni-
versity of Maryland Law School. He passed the Maryland
State Bar examination in the Spring of 1910 and has been
in the active practice of the law since that time.

Mr. Curran served in the administration of Governor
Emerson G. Harrington as a member of the Board of Liquor
License Commissioners of Baltimore City, in the adminis-
tration of Governor Albert C. Ritchie as a member of the
Board of Election Supervisors of Baltimore City and in the
administration of Governor Herbert R. O'Conor as one of
the Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of
Legislation in the United States. Mr. Curran represented
the First Legislative District of Baltimore City in the State
Senate of Maryland in 1914 and again in 1925; he served
also as a member of the Second Branch of the City Council
of Baltimore City in 1916.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

Comptroller of the State: J. MILLARD TAWES (Democrat),

Crisfield, Maryland.

J. Millard Tawes, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James B.
Tawes, was born in Crisfield, Somerset County, Maryland,
on April 8, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of
Crisfield, after which he entered the Wilmington Confer-
ence Academy. He graduated from this institution in 1912
and later entered Sadlers Bryant and Stratton Business
College in Baltimore where he completed a full course in
banking and accountancy. His first employment was with
his father who was then engaged in an extensive lumber
manufacturing business. During this time he was also
associated with the active management of The Tawes-
Gibson Packing Company, a seafood canning concern. Dur-