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farms, to which he devoted himself assiduously. He frequently
declined the tender of legislative nominations by the Democratic
party until the fall of 1891, when he was elected to the House of
Delegates by a decided majority, leading the ticket in the county.
While in the Legislature he served on several of the most promi-
nent standing committees.

Mr. Bowie is the third of his family in direct descent to repre-
sent Prince George's county in the Senate of/Maryland, his father
having been Senator previous to his election as Governor of the
State in 1867.

He is chairman of the committee on inspections, on the com-
mittees of education, agriculture and labor, militia and engrossed
bills, chairman of committee on retrenchment of expenses of
State Government, on the committee on temperance, on roads
and highways.

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.

Senator Woodland P. Finley.

Senator W. P. Finley, Democrat, begins his second term in
the State Senate, having been elected in 1893 to fill the unex-

pired term of John B. Brown, who had been elected to Congress.
Mr. Finley is a son of Dr. Washington Finley, of Church Hill,
one of the most prominent and respected residents of the county.
Senator Finley is forty-five years of age, and has always resided
at his home, near Church Hill, known as Locust Hill. He has
always been an active party worker, and has been identified with
the "Keating wing" of the Queen Anne's Democracy. The
widespread disaffection in Democratic ranks reduced Mr. Finley's
majority at the recent election to 39. Mr. Finley has been en-
gaged in agriculture. For several years he was a director in the
Queen Anne's National Bank of Centreville, until the past sum-
mer, when he resigned.

He is chairman of committee on agriculture and labor, on
the committees on public institutions, on pensions, on Chesapeake
bay and its tributaries, on public buildings in Annapolis, on roads
and highways.

ST. MARY'S COUNTY,

Senator Washington Wilkinson.

Washington Wilkinson, Republican, who is now filling his
second term as Senator for St. Mary's county, is fifty years of
age. His education was obtained in primary schools of the
county. Mr. Wilkinson has only been once beaten, viz., in