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Biographical Sketches of State Officers.

Governor of Maryland: LLOYD LOWNDES, (Republican,) of
Cumberland, Allegany county.

Lloyd Lowndes was born in Clarksburg, W. Va., Feb-
ruary 21, 1845. His father and grandfather were prominent
men of Maryland, and the Lowndes family has been iden-
tified with the interests of Western Maryland almost from
its settlement. Mr. Lowndes waa educated in the academy
at Clarksburg, in Washington College, Washington, Penn-
sylvania, and in Allegany College, Meadville, Pennsylvania,
having graduated from the last-named institution in 1805.
He studied law in Philadelphia, and, in 1867, graduated
from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. He
settled in Cumberland, and soon acquired a large and
lucrative practice. He was elected to Congress in 1872.
When he entered the Forty-third Congress, he was but
twenty-eight years of age, and was the youngest member
of the House. He was a member of the national conven-
tion that nominated James A. Garn'eld for the Presidency,
and was one of the National World's Fair Commissioners
for Maryland. Mr. Lowndes was nominated for Governor
by the Republican Convention, in Cambridge, on August
15, 1895, and was elected in November following. The
family of the Governor includes five sons and a daughter.
As Executive of the State, Governor Lowndes has been
attentive to the very closest details of bis office, making a
capable and dignified chief magistrate of the Common-
wealth.

Governor Elect: JOHN WALTER SMITH, (Democrat,) of
Worcester county.

John Walter Smith was born in Snow Hill, on the 5th of
February, 1845. He was sent to school at Union Academy
in Snow Hill, where he pursued the English and classical
course of that institution. He left school at the age of