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HORACE E. FLACK
Director of Legislative Reference

Horace E. Flack, Director of Legislative Reference, was born in
Rutherford, North Carolina, May 14, 1879. Attended Wake Forest
College, A. B., A. M., 1901, LL.D., 1933; The Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, Ph.D., 1906; University of Maryland, LL.B., 1912, LL.D.,
1942. Appointed Director of Legislative Reference for Baltimore City
1907 and State Director of Legislative Reference in 1916; Secretary
and Director of Research of the Legislative Council 1939 to date. Member
of the Charter Revision Commission of Baltimore City, 1909-1910,1917-
1918, 1925-1927, 1944-1946; Tax Survey Commission of Maryland,
1931-1933. Author of Spanish-American Diplomatic Relations Pre-
ceding the War of 1898, 1906 and The Adoption of the Fourteenth
Amendment, 1908. Editor of "Notes on Current Legislation", Amer-
ican Political Science Review, 1910-1914 and of Taft Papers on the
League of Nations, 1920 (with Theodore Marburg). Contributor to
Cyclopedia of American Government. Editor and Compiler of An-
notated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, 1930, 1939 and
supplements 1935, 1943, and 1947; Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland 1930, and Code of Public Local Laws for Baltimore City,
1927, 1938, 1949; Baltimore City Code 1927; and for the counties of
Anne Arundel, 1947; Montgomery, 1939, 1947; and Prince George's
1943. In 1949, Dr. Flack having reached the statutory retirement
age, the General Assembly made it possible for him to continue in
office by the passage of an Act making the Director of Legislative
Reference an appointive official for retirement purposes (Acts 1949,
Ch. 19). Dr. Flack is married to the former Edith Henning and has
one daughter, Mary Alice F. Miller of Paris, France.