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Starting at the "hell box" he has passed through all the
various scenes connected with an up-to-date country news-
paper office, and is to-day editor of one of the best known
papers in the State, The Wicomico News. Mr. Brewington
has had a wide newspaper experience, having for years been
connected with the Baltimore Sun in the capacity of reporter,
and also the New York World. He is National Committee-
man of the National Editorial Association. He is a Mason
of high. standing, and director of the Farmers and Merchants'
Bank at Salisbury, also director and secretary of the Penin-
sula General Hospital. Mr. Brewington has served one term
in the Maryland Senate.
Worcester County—JOHN P. MOORE, Democrat,
Mr. Moore, one of the most prominent citizens of Snow
Hill, is an excellent business man, having accumulated a
fortune while yet a young man. He was educated at Dela-
ware College, and is a well read man, possessing a splendid
library. He has been chairman of the Democratic State Cen-
tral Committee for a number of years, and has also served as
chairman of the Committees on Corporations and executive
Nominations in the Senate of 1900, to which he was elected
to fill the unexpired term of Hon. John Walter Smith. He
was unanimously nominated and re-elected by an increased
majority to the Senate of 1902, though not even in the coun-
try at the time of nomination or election, being detained in
France on account of the illness of his son. He was ap-
pointed a colonel on the Governor's staff. Mr. Moore is a
Mason, and a member of the committee of the Presbyterian
Church.
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