graduated from the University of Maryland in 1912 with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. In April, 1910, Mr. Perlman
left the Star to become a member of the first staff of the
Evening Sun. For a time he was court reporter and special
writer, and in the latter part of 1913 he was made City
Editor of the paper.

In January, 1917, Mr. Perlman resigned the City Editor-
ship of. the Evening Sun to accept an appointment from. Albert
C. Ritchie, the Attorney-General, as an Assistant in the State
Law Department which was then being organized, under the
provisions of the Acts of 1916. In March, 1918, the State Law
Department was enlarged and Mr. Perlman became an Assist-
ant Attorney General. Previous to this, in June, 1917, he had
assisted the Attorney General in drafting the program of War
Legislation adopted at the War Session of the General Assem-
bly. Among the legislation which Mr. Perlman helped to
draft was the bill creating the Compulsory Work Bureau,
which was later copied in other States throughout the coun-
try; the act providing for the voting of absent soldiers and
sailors, and the acts providing for postponing legal proceed-
ings and suspending judgments in favor of those absent in the
military or naval service. Among the bills which Mr. Perlman
helped to draft for the Legislature of 1918 was the one revis-
ing the Motor Vehicle Laws and creating the Traffic Court in
Baltimore. Mr. Ritchie was elected Governor of Maryland in
November, 1919, and Mr. Perlman resigned as Assistant
Attorney General the following month in order to devote him-
self to the private practice of law. During his services in the
Attorney General's Office, Mr. Perlman appeared in nineteen
cases in the Court of Appeals and argued a number of others
in the lower Courts throughout the State. After Mr. Ritchie
became Counsel to the War Industries Board in Washington,
Mr. Perlman was elected by the Faculty of the University of
Maryland to succeed him as the Lecturer on elementary law.
Mr. Perlman lectured on this subject at the University for two
years.

On January 14th, 1920, when Mr. Ritchie was inaugurated
Governor, he appointed Mr. Perlman as Secretary of State of
Maryland and he assumed the office on the same day. Dur-
ing the 1920 session of the Legislature, the Governor intrusted
Mr. Perlman with the drafting of the legislation to redeem the
pledges made in the Democratic party platform. Among the