education in the public schools of Frederick and at St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, from which he
was graduated in 1916. He entered Princeton University
the fall of the same year and left in May, 1917, to go to
France with the First Princeton Unit of the American
Field Service. After serving a six months' enlistment with
that organization he returned to the United States in De-
cember, 1917, and enlisted in the American Air Forces,
in which he served until the signing of the Armistice.

Following the Armistice, Mr. Winebrenner taught at St.
James School, the Episcopal Diocesan School for Boys,
near Hagerstown, Maryland, until Jane, 1919. In the fall
of the same year he entered the Law School of the University
of Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1922. In
1921, prior to his graduation from law school, Mr. Wine-
brenner passed the Maryland Bar Examinations and was
subsequently admitted to practice.

Returning to his home in Frederick, Mr. Winebrenner
commenced the practice of law in June, 1922, and the follow-
ing year formed a partnership with Francis H. Turner, Esq.

In 1923 he was appointed as Private Secretary to United
States Senator William Cabell Bruce, which position he
held until December 31, 1924.

In May, 1924, Mr. Winebrenner was nominated for Con-
gress in the Sixth Congressional District on the Democratic
ticket in a four-cornered primary, but was defeated in the
November election by Congressman Frederick N. Zihlman.
Shortly thereafter Mr. Winebrenner dissolved his law part-
nership with Mr. Urner and formed a new one with Walter
E. Sinn, Esq., which firm now practices in Frederick under
the name of Winebrenner and Sinn.

Mr. Winebrenner was appointed Secretary of State of
Maryland on December 8, 1925, by Governor Ritchie to
succeed E. Brooke Lee, resigned, and was reappointed on
January 12, 1927, and again on January 14, 1931.

Attorney-General: WILLIAM PRESTON LANE, JR. (Democrat),

Hagerstown, Maryland.

William Preston Lane, Jr., son of Colonel William P.
Lane and Virginia Lee Cartwright Lane, was born on May
12, 1892, in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland.
He received his early education in the public schools and
graduated from the Hagerstown High School in 1910. He
attended the University of Virginia, taking academic work
for two years and then graduated from the Law School of
that University in 1915. He was admitted to the Maryland
Bar in the early part of 1916 and became a member of the