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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 LANK, 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 Gnard 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 prouioted 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 Hagerstosvn. 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 National
Conventions iu 1928 and 1932.
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