producing States to send troops to the mines, Governor
Ritchie, alone among them all, declined to send troops to the
mines and took the position that the situation should be met
by mutual agreement and not by the bayonet. The strike was
finally settled by mutual agreement.

Governor Ritchie was elected President of the Maryland
State Bar Association for the year 1922-1923.

In September, 1923, Governor Ritchie was renominated
without opposition for a second term as Governor, and in
November, 1923, was re-elected by a plurality of over 40,000.
Maryland has elected her Governors by popular vote since
1838. During all that time no Democratic Governor had ever
been renominated, and no Governor of either party had ever
been re-elected. Governor Ritchie broke both precedents.

During the first Legislature of his second term, that of
1924, be completed a reduction in the State tax rate of 25
per cent. since 1920, which was without precedent in Mary-
land since 1867.

Governor Ritchie was one of the delegates at large from
Maryland to the Democratic National Convention held in
St. Louis in June, 1916, which nominated Woodrow Wilson
for his second term, and was also delegate at large to the
Democratic National Convention held in San Francisco in
June, 1920, and to that held in New York in June, 1924.

Secretary of State: E. BROOKE LEE (Democrat), Silver

Spring, Maryland.

Edward Brooke Lee, the eldest son of Blair Lee and Anne
Clymer Brooke Lee, was born October 23, 1892.

He lived with his father at Silver Spring, Maryland, at-
tending public and private schools until he was fifteen years
old, at which age he entered Pomfret School, Pomfret Center,
Connecticut, graduating there in 1912, then entering Prince-
ton University and completing the Freshman year of the
Class of 1916. He left Princeton to work in his father's
office during the day, his father then being United States
Senator from Maryland, and at night attended the law school
at George Washington University, Washington, D. C., and