Clerk of the Court of Appeals: THOMAS PARRAN,
(Republican).

Thomas Parran was born in Calvert County February 12,
1860. He was educated in Charlotte Hall Academy. He
was elected to the House of Delegates in 1883 and re-elected
in 1885. He was Chief Deputy in the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice at Baltimore from 1889 to 1893, which year lie was elected
to the State Senate. He was appointed Assistant Enrolling
Clerk in 1895 and Index Clerk in 1897 in the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States. The later position he held
at the time of his election, November 5, 1901, as Clerk to the
Court of Appeals of Maryland,