Mr. Dennis is Treasurer and member of the Board of
Regents of the University of Maryland, Treasurer and
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement
System of the State of Maryland, and an officer and
director in a number of financial and other corporations
among which are the following: Baltimore Tube Company,
Director; Belvedere Hotel Company, Baltimore, Vice-Presi-
dent and Director; Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry Company,
Vice-President and Director: Davis Goal and Coke Corn
pany, Director; Delaware Railroad Company, Director;
Eastern Rolling Mill Company, Director; Fidelity and
Guaranty Fire Corporation, Director; Metropolitan Savings
Bank, Baltimore, Director; Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, Director; Porcelain Enamel and Manufacturing Com-
pany, Director; Union Trust Company of Maryland, Presi-
dent and Director; United States Fidelity and Guaranty
Company, Director; Western Maryland Railway Company,
Director.

At the 1916 session of the General Assembly of Maryland
Mr. Dennis was elected Treasurer of the State of Maryland,
serving for two years. He was elected for the second time
in 1920, succeeding Hon. William Purnell Jackson; was re-
elected in 1922, and again in 1924 by the unanimous vote of
the General Assembly. The 1927 session of the General
Assembly again elected Mr. Dennis to this office for a term
of four years on January 27, 1927, and he was re-elected
by the 1931 session on January 13, 1931, for another term
of four years.

Comptroller of the Treasury: WM. S. GORDY, Jr. (Demo

crat), Salisbury, Maryland.

William Sidney Gordy, Jr., was born December Slat,
1873, at Salisbury, Maryland. His father was the late Wil-
liam Sidney Gordy, who for many years was connected with
the business interests of Salisbury, and was a SOD of Samuel
Gordy, one of the early settlers and merchants of this city.
His mother, who is also deceased, was before her marriage,
Virginia Dashiell Brewington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry J. Brewington. In November, 1901, Mr. Gordy mar-
ried Miss M. Clara White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Henry White of Salisbury, Maryland.

Mr. Gordy received his education in the public schools of
Wicomico County. His first employment was as clerk in the
local freight office of the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk
Railroad Company, later being passenger and freight agent
for the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Com-