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

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

Kent County—WILLIAM M. SLAY, Democrat—Chestertown.

Mr. Slay's parents, William and Louisa Slay, were Dela-
wareans who resided a few years in Queen Anne's county, Md.
In January, 1848, they returned to Kent county, Del., where
their son grew up and attended the public school, also a private
school in Dover, Del., from which he entered Yale College and
graduated therefrom in 1868. The next year he came to Ches-
tertown, Md„ to teach school, afterwards reading law at the
same place, and was admitted to the Bar there in 1872, where
he has lived and practiced law since. He was married in 1885.
In 1891 he was elected State's Attorney and renominated in
1895, but was defeated at the election in the Republican land-
slide of that year.

Montgomery County—BLAIR LEE, Democrat—Silver Spring.

Mr. Blair Lee was born August 9, 1857, on Silver Spring
farm, in Montgomery county, Md., where he now lives, it being
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,
as now, strongly Republican. He was a delegate to the Kansas
City National Democratic Convention from the Sixth district
in 1900, and as vice-president of the Democratic campaign
clubs, maintained headquarters at the Eutaw House, in Balti-
more, taking an active part in that campaign. In the Mont-
gomery county primary of 1905; under the Crawford system,
he was nominated for the State Senate, defeating the Honorable
Spencer C. Jones by a majority of about 800, and was elected
on November 7 to the State Senate by a majority of about 300.