Attorney-General: THOMAS H. ROBINSON (Democrat),

Belair, Maryland.

Thomas H. Robinson, sou of Dr. Samuel S. and Mary C.
Robinson, was born on March 2, 1860, in Harford County,
Maryland. He received an excellent education and was
admitted to the Bar in 1883. Since that time he has actively
practiced his profession and has taken a leading part in
many important litigations. His law offices have always
been at Belair, the county seat of Harford. He has for
some years been president of the Second National Bank of
Belair.

Mr. Robinson took a leading and active part in three
sessions of the Maryland Senate, as Senator from Harford
County. He served the Democratic party four times as a
delegate to National Convention and was chairman of the
Maryland delegation that nominated (governor Cox for Pres-
ident. Mr. Robinson was also chairman of the Maryland
delegation to the National Convention in New York, in 1924,
which nominated John W. Davis for President. He was
chairman of all the Liberty Loans of his district, and chair-
man of the Council of Defense for Harford County during
the World War, and the Secretary of War appointed him
on the commission which selected the land (35,000 acres)
for the Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Mr. Robinson served on Governor Ritchie's Reorganization
Commission. He was a member of the Committee of Bight
that actually drafted the plan of State Reorganization, which
was adopted by the commission and put into effect by Gov-
ernor Ritchie. In 1923 he was his party's candidate for
Attorney-General of the State and received an overwhelming
majority for that office.

Mr. Robinson married, September 17, 1884, Clara 0. Cain,
also of Harford County. They have five children, one
deceased.

The Adjutant General: MILTON A. RECKORD (Democrat),

Harford County.

Milton A. Reckord, the twenty-second Adjutant General
of Maryland, was born in Harford County December 28th,
1879. He is the son of the late John H. and Lydia A.
Reckord.

General Reckord's connection with the Maryland National
Guard dates from February 15th, 1901, when he enlisted as
a private in Company D, 1st Infantry. He served as an en-