elected Governor of Maryland. Senator Jackson is presi-
dent of the Salisbury National Bank and of the Sussex
Bank of Seaford, Del. He was last elected State Senator
in 1895.

Worcester County—JOHN WALTER SMITH,Democrat.

John Walter Smith was born in Snow Hill, on the 5th of
February, 1845. He was sent to school at Union Academy
in Snow Hill, where he pursued the English and classical
course of that institution. He left school at the age of
eighteen to accept a position as clerk in the large mercan-
tile house of George H. Richardson & Brother, of Snow
Hill, and was taken in as a partner in the firm while still
quite a young man. This firm, now known as Richardson,
Smith, Moore & Co., after Mr. Smith became a member of
it, engaged largely in the lumber business, both in his
county and in Virginia. In 1889 Mr. Smith was elected
State Senator for Worcester County. He was elected
president of the Senate in 1894. lie was re-elected to the
State Senate in 1893 and again in 1897. During the ses-
sion of 1896, Senator Smith introduced and secured the
passage of the free school bill.