Attorney-General-elect: ISAAC LOBE STRAUS (Democrat), of
Baltimore.

Mr, Straus was born in Baltimore on the 24th of March,
1871. His early education was by private instruction and at
the Baltimore City College. In 1887 he entered the Johns
Hopkins University and graduated there with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1890. Having won a university scholar-
ship, he remained at the university for a post-graduate year,
continuing his studies in Roman law and political science.
In the meantime he read law in the office of the Honorable
Isidor Rayner and entered the Law Department of the Univer-
sity of Maryland, where he graduated with the degree of Bach-
elor of Laws in 1892, when he was admitted to the Bar. In
January, 1900, he was appointed General Counsel to the Board
of Supervisors of Elections for Baltimore city and held that
place until nominated for the General Assembly in the fall of
1901. In November. 1901, he was elected to the House of
Delegates and was the leader of that body during- the session
of 1902. In 1904. he was appointed and served for several
months as a member of the Burnt District Commission of
Baltimore City. His offices in the Glenn Building having
been destroyed by the great fire in February, 1904, Mr. Straus
practiced for the year following the fire in the office of the
Honorable William Pinkney Whyte. In 1906 he was
appointed by the General Assembly as Special Counsel for
the State of Maryland in the controversy of the State with
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad growing out of the suspen-
sion by the railroad company of the payment of dividends
on the State's stock in the Washington Branch of the rail-
road, and took a leading part in effecting the settlement and
preparing the legislative measures whereby the State dis-
posed of its 5.500 shares of the Washington Branch stock to
the railroad company fur the sum of $2,500,000. In 1906
the Maryland Agricultural College conferred the degree of
Master of Arts upon Mr. Straus.

Clerk of the Court of Appeals-elect: CALEB CLARKE
MAGRUDER (Democrat).

Caleb Clarke Magruder, of Prince George's county, son
of Caleb Clarke Magruder, lawyer, and Mary Spring Belt,
was graduated A. B. and A. M., Georgetown University.
Studied law at the University of Virginia. Married Eliza-
beth Rice, daughter of Dr. Richard Thomas Nalle and Ellen
Anne Hooe. of Virginia. Democratic candidate for State
Senator from Prince George's in 1881, and for Associate
Judge of Seventh Judicial Circuit in 1897. Elected Clerk
of the Court of Appeals November 5, 1907.