in 1894. During the session of the Legislature of 1896 he
introduced and secured the passage of the Free School Book
Bill. In 1892 he was unanimously tendered the nomination
for Congress, which he declined on account of his large busi-
ness interests. In 1898 he accepted the Democratic nomina-
tion for Congress from the First Congressional District of
Maryland, and was electeD by a handsome majority. Before
he had taken his seat as a member of Congress, he became
the Democratic candidate for Governor by unanimous nomi-
nation, and was elected by a plurality of 12,123 votes over his
Republican competitor, Governor Lowndes, in November,
1899. The day before he was inaugurated as Governor he
resigned his seat in Congress. He was inaugurated Governor
January 10th, 1900, for a term of four years and is now
filling out said term.

Governor-Elect: EDWIN WARFIELD (Democrat), of How-
ard County.

Mr. Edwin Warfield was born May 7, 1848, at "Oakdale,"
Howard County, Maryland. His father was Albert G. War-
field, one of the leading citizens of the county, and his
mother was a daughter of Colonel Gassaway Watkins, a dis-
tinguished soldier of the Revolutionary War, a member of
the Maryland Line and its last surviving officer, who at
the time of his death, in 1840, was President of the Mary-
land Society of the Cincinnati. His paternal and maternal
ancestors were among the first settlers of the State of Mary-
land, were prominent in the early Colonial period, and in all
subsequent important political movements in the State and
its government. He was educated in the public schools of
Howard County and at St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville,
Md., but was prevented from obtaining a collegiate education
by the war, involving, as it did, the emancipation of his
father's slaves. At the age of eighteen he began teaching
school and studying law, and did both at the same time suc-
cessfully.

His first political position was that of Register of Wills of
Howard County, to which office he was appointed in 1874 to
fill a vacancy, and was unanimously nominated by the Demo-
crats in 1875 and elected for a term of six years, leading his-
ticket in the popular vote. At the expiration of his term he
declined re-election, preferring to take up the practice of law.

In 1881 he was elected to the State Senate to succeed Hon.
Arthur P. Gorman, who had been elected United States Sen-
ator; was re-elected in 1883, and made President of the State-
Senate in 1886. During his first two sessions he was a
member of the most important committees. His rulings.