238 MARYLAND MANUAL.

Attorney-General: ISIDOR RAYNER, (Democrat,) of Balti-
more Citv.

Mr. Isidor Rayner was bom in Baltimore fifty years ago.
He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1870, and
then studied law. Soon after his admission to the bar he
attracted public attention by his ability as a lawyer and an
advocate. In 1878 he was elected to the Maryland House of
Delegates. In 1886 he was elected to the State Senate. In
that body his course was so brilliant that in 1888 he was
nominated for and elected to Congress from the Fourth Dis-
trict. His record there was a splendid one, and he was
returned in 1890 and 1892. He was, while in Congress, a
member of Committees on Foreign Relations and on Coinage
and Currency, and took a most prominent position before the
country in the important debates upon the floor. Mr. Rayner
is known to the general masses of the people by his powers
as a public speaker, always commanding attention, whether
in court or on the hustings. He has taken a leading part for
his party in the State and the country in all political discus-
sions of the times.

Adjutant-General: GEN. JOHN S. SAUNDERS, (Democrat).

Gen. John S. Saunders was born at Norfolk, Virginia, on
the 3Oth day of January, 1836. His father, grandfather and
great grandfather were successively officers of the Navy and
Army of the United States. At the age of 15 he entered St.
James College, Md. He was appointed a cadet to West Point
at large, by President Franklin Pierce in 1854, and graduated
No. 5 in his class June nth, 1858. He was temporarily
assigned to the Artillery Arm on graduating, but in September
was transferred to the Ordnance Department, where he served
until his resignation was accepted in April, 1861. He en-
tered the C. S. A. soon afterwards, and served as Ordnance
Officer in Richmond, Virginia; Chief of Artillery at Norfolk,
Virginia; Vicksburg, Miss.; in field with Army N. Virginia;
in command of battalion of artillery and Assistant Inspector
General C. S. A., surrendering as Assistant Ordnance Officer
Army N. Virginia, at Appomattox with General Lee.

He came to Maryland in 1867, settling in Baltimore, where
he has resided since. He entered the Maryland National
Guard as Inspector General of Brigadeon May yth, 1887, with
the rank of Colonel, resigning his commission to accept the
appointment of Adjutant General of the State of Maryland,
February 7th, 1900.