Grace, Third National Bank of Baltimore, the Common-
wealth Bank of Baltimore and the American Bonding Com-
pany of Baltimore, the National Bank at Port Deposit, a
director in the Delaware Railroad and was one of the World's
Fair Commissioners for the State of Maryland appointed
by Governor Brown in 1892. He is a director in nearly all
the incorporated companies located at Havre de Grace, and
was Mayor of the city in 1885 and 1886. He wrote the char-
ter which incorporated Havre de Grace as a city in 1878.

Attorney-General: ISAAC LOBE STRAUS (Democrat), of Bal-
timore City.

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
Isador Rayner and entered the Law Department of the
University of Maryland, where he graduated with the
degree of Bachelor 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 Balti-
more city and held that place until nominated for the Gen-
eral 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 fol-
lowing the fire in the office of the Honorable William Pink-
ney Whyte. In 1906 he was appointed by the General
Assembly as Special Connsel for the State of Maryland in
the controversy of the State with the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad growing ont of the suspension by the railroad com-
pany of the payments of dividends on the State's stock in
the Washington Branch of the railroad, and took a leading
part in effecting the settlement and preparing the legislative
measures whereby the State disposed of its 5,500 shares of
the Washington Branch stock to the railroad company for
the sum of $2,500,000. In 1906 the Maryland Agricultural
College conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon Mr.
Straus.