lation of the Board of Trade of that town. He has taken an
active interest in county and State politics for a number of
years, but has never before held a political office.

ROBHRT W. BROOKS, Democrat.

Mr. Brooke is considered one of the best practical farmers
and truckers of his section. He has had some experience in
legislative matters having held a position in the Legislature
of 1894. He is a native Marylander, about forty-one years of
age, and was educated in the schools of his county and Wash-
ington.

ROBERT W. WELLS, Democrat.

Mr. Wells was born near Bladensburg in 1875. After re-
ceiving the degree of Master of Laws from the Columbian
University he went to Kansas and was admitted to the bar of
the Supreme Court. In 1897 he returned to Washington and
is a member of the Bar Association of the District of Colum-
bia, of the Business Men's Association of the District of Col-
umbia and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board
of Trade of Hyattsville, and of various social organizations.
He is very much interested in politics, and was an alternate
to the Kansas City Democratic Convention in 1900.

JAMES P. CURLEY, Republican.

Mr. Curley, member of the bar of Prince George's County,
Baltimore City and the Court of Appeals, represents his
county for the first time, never having held political office
before. In addition to the practice of his profession he is
editor of the Laurel Leader, a weekly newspaper. Mr. Curley
was born in Rockwood, Pa., in 1871.

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY— Three Members.
JOHN T. NORMAN, Democrat.

Mr. Norman is a native of Kent Island, and was born in
1832. He received his education in the public schools and by
reading at home after he left school. He is considered one of
the best farmers in Queen Anne's County. In 1887 and 1899
he was elected to the House by alarge majority, and served in
the extra session of 1901.

WILLIAM OTHO THOMAS, Democrat.

William Otho Thomas, a democrat of the oldest and purest
type, was born on Kent Island in 1859, At the age of twenty