tional Guard Brigade at Camp McClellan, Alabama, in Octo.
her, 1917. He commanded K Company, 115th Infantry, dur-
ing the period the Twenty-ninth Division held a sector of the
line in Alsace, during which period he was twice cited by his
Division Commander for gallantry in action, and twice dec-
orated by the French with the Croix de Guerre. He received
the Belgian Order of Leopold for leading the advance of a
raiding party through the enemy wire on August 31st, 1918,
and for being the last to leave the enemy trenches. He was
promoted to the rank of Major and placed in command of the
Second Battalion, 115th Infantry, November 2nd, 1918, and
was discharged at Camp Meade, Maryland, as Major of that
Battalion in June, 1918. He was elected Comptroller of the
State of Maryland on November 4th, 1919.

Attorney-General: ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG (Bepublican),

Hagerstown, Md.

Alexander Armstrong was born in Hagerstown, Maryland,
on June 28th, 1877. His father was the late Alexander Arm-
strong, for many years a practicing attorney of Hagerstown,
and his mother, who is also deceased, was, before her marriage,
Miss Elizabeth Key Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Bruce Scott, of Hagerstown. Mr. Armstrong attended the
public schools of Washington County, graduating from its
High School in 1895. He then entered Princeton University,
receiving there the degree of A.B. in 1899, and the degree of
A.M., in 1900, and was later graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School in 1903 with a degree of LL.B.
Mr. Armstrong was admitted to the Bar of Maryland on Janu-
ary 13, 1904, and immediately commenced the practice of law
in Hagerstown. In April, 1904, he was appointed City Attor-
ney for Hagerstown, serving until July, 1906. In the fall of
1907 he was elected State's Attorney for Washington County,
serving one term, from January 1st, 1908, to January 1st, 1912.
From that date Mr. Armstrong has devoted his entire time to
private practice, his work taking him before the Courts and
Commissions of Maryland and also before the Federal Court
of Baltimore. The law offices in Hagerstown, with which Mr.
Armstrong is still connected, are conducted under the name of
Armstrong and Scott. In September, 1919, Mr. Armstrong
was nominated by the Republican State Convention for Attor-