the Law Building, Baltimore. He was a member of the ses-
sion of the Legislature of 1904 and took an active part in
all business before the House; in 1906 he was Speaker of the
House and chairman of the joint committee of the Senate and
House appointed to investigate the B.& 0. Railroad, which
investigation resulted in the selling- of the State's holdings in
the Washington .Branch of the B. & 0. Railroad, at the sum of
$2,500,000, which put the State practically out of debt and
enabled it to reduce the State taxes from 23 cents to 16 cents.
Mr. Benson was probably the youngest Speaker that ever pre-
sided over the House of Delegates.

WILLIAM F. COGHLAN, Democrat—Pikesville.

Mr. William F. Coghlan was born at Stevenson, Baltimore
county, Md., June 21, 1872, and has always resided in the
precinct m which he was born. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Baltimore county, and has been engaged in
the grocery business at Pikesville for the last 20 years. He
was appointed Justice of the Peace by Governor Smith in
1902 and reappointed by Governor Warfield in 1004 and 1906.
He comes of staunch Democratic stock, being a grandson of
the late Edward Coghlan, who came from Ireland to America
in 1810, settling in Frederick county, where he served as a
Justice of the Peace for many years.

MICHAEL P. KEHOE, Democrat—Govanstown.

Mr. Kehoe was born in 1873, came from Ireland 15 years
ago, and graduated in law at the Catholic University of Amer-
ica, where he took the degree of Juris Doctoratus. He resides
in Govanstown, Baltimore county, and has been engaged in
the practice of his profession since his admission to the Bar.
He is now associated in the practice of law with Mr. Robert
W. Mobray, under the firm name of Kehoe & Mobray, with
offices in the Calvert Building, Baltimore. He is one of the
Justices of the Peace for Baltimore county, and has never
before held an elective office.

JOHN MAYS LITTLE, Democrat—Parkton.

Mr. John Mays Little is the only son of Mr. William H. Little,
a prominent farmer residing near Parkton, in the Seventh Elec-
tion district. The subject of this sketch was brought up on a
farm and can today do a good day's work in any department
of farm work. He attended the public schools of the county
until he determined to prepare tor- college, when he attended