He has never before held an elective office, but has always
taken an active interest in Democratic politics.

Adjutant-General: MAJOR-GENERAL CLINTON LEVERING
RIGGS (Democrat).

General Riggs was born in New York city on the 13th day
of September, 1866. .His parents moved to Baltimore six
weeks later, and he has since resided there and in Baltimore

•county. He is a son of the late Lawrason Riggs, and a direct
descendant of Francis Riggs, who settled in Calvert county
in 1663, members of this family having afterwards spread
through Anne Arundel, Frederick and Montgomery counties.
His maternal grandfather was the Hon. Jesse D. Bright, who
was for four terms United States Senator from Indiana.

At the age of 11 he entered St. Paul's School, Concord,
N. H. He graduated as a civil engineer from Princeton
University in 1887, standing second in his class. After prac-
ticing this profession a short time in Iowa he returned to enter

•the machine shop of Robert Poole & Son Company; went to
Detrick & Harvey Machine Company on February 9, 1891,
and retired from business as vice-president of that company
on January 15, 1903: entered the services of the Maryland
National Guard as second lieutenant of Company E, Fifth
Infantry, on April 20, 1890; elected captain of Company F,
same regiment, on February 23, 1891, and major on Novem-
ber 12, 1895; was mustered into the service of the United
States on May 14, 1898, as major, Fifth Maryland United
States Volunteers, and mustered out with his regiment at close
of Spanish-American War on October 22, 1898; resigned from
the Maryland National Guard on January 26, 1899; appointed
Adjutant-General of the State of Maryland on January, 1904.

Clerk of the Court of Appeals: THOMAS PARRAN (Repub-
lican) .

Thomas Parran was born in Calvert county February 12,
1860. He was educated at Charlotte Hall Academy. He was
elected to the House of Delegates in 1883 and re-elected in
1885. He was Chief Deputy in the Internal Revenue Service
at Baltimore from 1889 to 1893, which year he was elected to
the State Senate. He was appointed Assistant Enrolling Clerk
in 1895 and Index Clerk in 1807 in the House of Representa-
tives of the United States. The latter position he held at the
time of his election, November 5, 1901, as Clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland.