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
firm of Keedy and Lane in Hagerstown, which firm was
first organized in 1876.

After he graduated, he was commissioned a Captain in
the Maryland National Guard and was appointed Adjutant
of the First Maryland Infantry. He went with his regi-
ment to Eagle Pass, Texas, and served in the Mexican Bor-
der Service during the latter part of 1916, after which he
returned to Hagerstown to resume the practice of law.

On July 25th, 1917, he was called out as a member of the
Maryland National Guard for service in the World War and
went to Camp McCellan, Anniston, Alabama, where he was
made the Adjutant of the 115th Infantry, which was part
of the 29th Division. He served over-seas from June, 1918,
until the latter part of May, 1919, with the 115th Infantry.
After the Armistice he was promoted to the rank of Major
and was assigned to duty as the Assistant Adjutant of the
29th Division.

At the close of the World War, he resumed the practice of
law in Hagerstown. He has taken an active interest in the
banking business and the publication of Hagerstown's news-
papers.

Major Lane married January 17, 1922, Dorothy Byron,
also of Hagerstown. They have two children.

Mr. Lane was a Delegate to the Democratic rational
Conventions in 1928 and 1932.

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