the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1888,
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1895, during the
Lowndes campaign, he was elected comptroller of the treas-
ury, in which office he was succeeded by Governor Goldsbor-
ough. In 1898 he was elected State Tax Commissioner, and
during his incumbency succeeded in collecting many back
dues, thus succeeded in securing for the State considerable
sums of money. He was succeeded in the office by Colonel
Buchanan Schley.

During the campaign of 1911, which witnessed the election
of Governor Goldsborough, Mr. Graham was among the fore-
most of those who labored for the restoration of the Repub-
lican party. In January, 1912, he was appointed by Gover-
nor Goldsborough, Secretary of State.

Mr. Graham married in 1895 Caroline Riggs Dorsey, of
Baltimore, and they are the parents of four children: Mar-
garet Dorsey, born September 29, 1896; Eleanor Patterson,
born March 24, 1899; Alice Collier Graham, born December
29, 1906, and Robert P. Graham, Jr., born January 17, 1912.