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308 MARYLAND MANUAL. After his term of office as State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, Mr. Nice retired to the private practice of law and later, in 1934, again entered the field of politics by declar- ing for the Republican nomination for Governor. In this contest, Mr. Nice was successful over two very formidable opponents and again received his party’s nomination for the office of Governor of Maryland. In the November election following, (1934), Mr. Nice defeated his Democratic opponent, the then incumbent Governor Ritchie, who likewise opposed him in 1919, by a margin of more than 6000 votes. Attorney General: HERBERT ROMULUS O’CONOR, (Demo- crat), Baltimore, Maryland. Herbert Romulus O’Conor, son of the late James P. A. O’Conor and Mary A. G. O’Conor, was born on November 17th, 1896, in Baltimore. He received his early education at St. Paul’s Parochial School and graduated from Loyola Col- lege, where he received a degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1917, and the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1924. In 1920 he re- ceived his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Maryland. Mr. O’Conor became a member of the staff of The Balti- more Sun and Evening Sun, and in 1921 was appointed an Assistant State’s Attorney. He occupied this position until January 1st, 1923, when he was appointed People’s Counsel of the Public Service Commission. In the fall of 1923 he became the Democratic nominee for State’s Attorney, and was elected to this position by a major- ity of 30,000 votes. He was the youngest State’s Attorney ever to be elected in Baltimore City. In the fall of 1926 he was re-elected by a majority of 58,000 votes, and again in 1930 by a majority of 100,000 votes, the largest majority ever received by a candidate for public office in Baltimore City. In November of 1934 Mr. O’Conor was elected Attor- ney General, also by a record-breaking majority. While State’s Attorney of Baltimore City, Mr. O’Conor organized the State’s Attorney’s Association of Maryland, and became its first president. He was also a charter member and officer of the Board of the National Association of Prose- cuting Attorneys. He was also Chairman of the State Judi- cial Commission of Maryland, and in 1932 was named on the Committee on Criminal Law and Statistics of the American Prison Association. Mr. O’Conor is a member of the National Association of Attorneys General, and is on the Committee on Resolutions. |
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