Havre de Grace, and was mayor of the city in 1885 and 1886.
He wrote the charter which incorporated Havre de Grace as a
city in 1878.

Comptroller: DR. GORDON T. ATKINSON (Democrat), of
Crisfield, Somerset county.

Dr. Atkinson holds a high rank among the professional and
business men of Somerset county, Md. He is a son of Levin
Atkinson, and was born December 28, 1846, on a farm in
Somerset county, Md. He attended the local schools in Poco-
moke City, Md., and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. He left
the college in his junior year to matriculate as a medical student
at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., where he
graduated in the class of 1869. He settled in the town of Cris-
field in 1871, where he now resides. The only office that he
has ever held has been that of Commissioner of Crisfield and
School Commissioner of Somerset county. He was a candidate
for the State Senate in 1895, but was defeated with his party.
Dr. Atkinson has always taken an active part in the councils
of the Democratic party, but has never been an aspirant for
office. He is now president of the Marine Bank of Crisfield,
and is 'also president of the Crisfield Ice Manufacturing Com-
pany, and a member of the well-known drug firm of Hall, At-
kinson & Co. Dr. Atkinson is a member of the Methodist
Protestant Church, and is connected with..the official board
of this organization.

Dr. Atkinson was a candidate for re-election for Comptroller
in 1905, and his administration was endorsed by the people of
Maryland by a large majority, notwithstanding the split in his
party on account of the Constitutional Amendment.

Attorney-General: WILLIAM S. BRYAN, Jr. (Democrat),
of Baltimore.

Mr. Bryan was born in Baltimore on the 23d of December,
1859, and was educated at Bethel Military Academy and Uni-
versity of Virginia. He studied law in his father's office, and
was admitted to the Bar in 1882. In 1890 he was appointed
one of the counsel to the Board of Supervisors, and held that
place until appointed City Attorney by Mayor Latrobe, March
19), 1802. On the 27th of September following he was ap-
pointed City Counsellor, and on the death of Mr. William A.
Hammond, on October 4, 1892, he was appointed City Solicitor
by Mayor Latrobe, which position he held until March, 1896.