On April 14, 1934, General Record was commissioned by
Governor Ritchie to be Major General and placed in com-
mand of the 29th Division.
General Reckord was a Delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1932.

Clerk of the Court of Appeals: JAMES A. YOUNG (Demo-
crat), Cumberland, Maryland.
James A. Young was born at Keyser, West Virginia, May
4, 1879. Two years later his parents moved into Allegany
County, where he has since resided. He attended the public
schools in Barton, Moscow Mills and Cumberland. He
learned the job printing trade in the plant of the Evening
Times in Cumberland, and for a while was foreman, and then
engaged in the job printing business in Cumberland.
At the time of the organization of the Maryland Shoe
Company (wholesale) in Cumberland, he was made a director
and with his father, as president, participated in the man-
agement of the sales department. Voluntarily leaving this
company, Mr. Young and his father assumed control of the
B. D. Johnson Milling Company, which firm he represented
as traveling salesman for several years.
On June 26, 1901, Mr. Young married Miss Daisy Wilson
White, a native of Cumberland. He is a member of Calvary
Methodist Episcopal Church, Annapolis, and is actively
identified with several fraternal societies.
Mr. Young comes from a prominent family, his father,
John W. Young, having been twice elected Clerk of Court
for Allegany County as a Democrat, although the county is
strongly Republican. He has held responsible political posi-
tions, having been clerk of the Board of Election Supervisors,
and in 1921 was elected a Road Director for Allegany County
by the largest vote ever given a Democrat for any office in
that county.
In the election of 1923, Mr. Young was elected Clerk of
the Court of Appeals of Maryland. The majority he received
(58,957) was the largest ever given to a candidate for public
office in Maryland.
In September, 1926, he was again nominated, and in
November, 1926, was re-elected for a term of four years,
again receiving the largest majority ever given a candidate
for public office in the State.
In September, 1930, Mr. Young was renominated, and in
November, 1930, he was re-elected for another term of four
years.