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caucus for Speaker of the House in 1896, and was elected the
day following. He has made a prompt and impartial presiding
officer.

He is chairman of committees on organization, and on rules.
ALLEGANY COUNTY. —5 Members.

Delegate Albert E. Ohr.

Mr. Ohr is a native of Cumberland, and is thirty years of age.
He was educated in the public schools of Cumberland, and has
won his own way by his personal merits. He entered the em-
ployment of the B. & O. Railroad company, and in 1893 he was
made assistant ticket agent at the Queen City depot. Mr. Ohr, for
several years, has taken a prominent part in local Republican
politics. He is chairman of the committee on public buildings,
and is a member of the committees on ways and means, on
claims and on temperance and regulation of the liquor traffic.
He was selected by his colleagues as the chairman of the Alle-
gany delegation.

David E. Dick.

David E. Dick, Republican, was born in Lonaconing, July 10,
1869. When a boy he began working about the coal mines near
Lonaconing, and continued at that occupation until 1890, when
he entered a business college in Philadelphia. He graduated
from that institution in November, 1891, and returned to his
employment in Jackson mines, where he continued working
until May, 1894. He took a prominent part in the strike which
occurred in 1894, and in consequence lost his position in the
mines. He then opened a grocery store in Lonaconing and is
still engaged in that business. Mr. Dick first became known in
politics in 1894, when he espoused the cause of ex-Senator Geo.
A. Pearre, who sought the Republican nomination for Congress
against George L. Wellington.

Mr. Dick was one of the leaders of the Pearre faction, which
bolted from the county convention that year. He is popular among
the miners and other labor organizations in the county. Mr.
Dick was married in 1893.

The young member astonished the House one day, when the
session was half over. Up to that time he had not spoken on
any subject before the General Assembly. On the day in ques-
tion, the civil-service bill came up, and Mr. Dick, in burning
words of eloquent fervor, delivered himself on the subject,
declared the House was being tricked into what it did not want
in this matter, and proclaimed his independent, God-given man-
hood, unbartered by gubernatorial favor or influence. His