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He is a member of the committee on judiciary, chairman com-
mittee on education, on public records, on part of House on joint
committee and on section 24, Article 3.
WICOMICO COUNTY-3 Members.
William S. Moore.
William S. Moore, of the legislative delegation from Wicomico
county, was born October 24, 1839. Mr. Moore has served two
terms in the Maryland Legislature and entered on his third in
January. He has filled the office of tax collector and been
sheriff of the county twice. He was in the office of sub-treas-
urer under Cleveland's first administration, and has been oyster
measurer for two terms in Baltimore. Mr. Moore is well in-
formed in political matters. He was sheriff of Wicomico one
term.
He is a member of the committee on rules, on ways and means,
on pensions, on civil service.
Granville M. Catlin.
Granville M. Catlin is thirty-two years old. He has never
filled a political office before. He has been identified with the
oyster industry of the county. He is a man of good judgment.
He is a member of the committee on Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries, on currency, on contingent fund; on insurance and
loan companies.
George T. Truitt.
George T. Truitt was a native of Pittsville, Wicomico county.
His business had always been in the lumber line. He had never
been much identified with politics, but is a man of shrewd busi-
ness attainments.
lie was a member of committee on part of House on joint
committee on section 24, article 3 of the Constitution, on militia,
on railroads and canals, on expiring laws.
On Monday, March 23, Mr. Truitt died at his home, making
the fourth member of the General Assembly who had died since
the election of November 5, 1895, viz: Senators Bennett, of
Carroll, and Bond, of Calvert; Delegates Birkefeld, of Balti-
more county, and Truitt, of Wicomico.
WORCESTER COUNTY. —3 Members.
William F. Johnson.
William F. Johnson is a young lawyer. He was born in 1863,
in Snow Hill. He was graduated from St. John's in 1884, and
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