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industry ever since. His father, George W. Baker, was the
pioneer canner of Harford County. Has always taken an active
interest in politics and cast his first vote for Augustus W.
Bradford, the Union candidate for governor in 1861.

Was elected to House of Delegates in 1881, and to State
Senate in 1893, but only served one session. Was elected to-
Congress in 1894, when he tendered his resignation as Sena-
tor. Was a member of 54th, 55th and 56th Congresses and
declined a renomination.

Was elected to State Senate in 1905 by 773 majority, being;
the largest majority ever given a Republican in the county.
Is one of the directors of the First National Bank of Havre
de Grace, and is president of the First National Bank of
Aberdeen.

Howard County—ARTHUR P. GORMAN, JR., Democrat—Laurel:

Mr. Gorman is a son of Senator German, and was born
March 27, 1873. He attended private schools in Washing-
ton, Episcopal High School in Virginia and Lawrenceville, N.
J., and received his legal education at Columbia University,
University of Maryland, and in the office of Attorney-General
John P. Poe. He is a member of the firm of Miles & Gorman.
Mr. Gorman was elected in the fall of 1903, the first elective
office he has held.

Kent County—GARRETT FOXWELL, Democrats-Blacks.

Mr. Foxwell was born near Odessa, New Castle County,
Delaware, September 25, 1844. He is a farmer, and very much
interested in agriculture. Mr. Foxwell was elected to the Sen-
ate for a term of four years in the fall of 1903.

Montgomery County—BLAIR LEE, Democrat—Silver Spring..

Blair Lee was born August 9, 1857, on Silver Spring farm,
in Montgomery County, Maryland, where he now lives, it be-
ing formerly the property of his grandfather, the late Francis
P Blair, Sr., and of his father, Rear-Admiral Samuel Phillips
Lee, U. S. N.

Mr. Lee graduated from Princeton in 1880, and was admitted
to the bar at Rockville and in the District of Columbia in 1883,
since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law.

He was nominated for Congress in the Sixth Congressional
District of Maryland on the Democratic ticket in 1896, but was
defeated by Captain John McDonald, the district being then,