Ever since his admission to the Bar, Mr. Jones has been
active in state and county affairs, both. civic and religious.
He has been president of the Garrett County Bar Associa-
tion and held important positions in a number of other
organizations. He is a trustee of St. Paul's Methodist Epis-
copal Churchy of Oakland, and also of West Virginia Wes-
leyan College. He is a member of the American Bar Associa-
tion. He has also been active in the financial affairs
of Garrett County and is a director of the First National
Bank, of Oakland, and the First State; Bank, of Grantsville.
Since his appointment as Secretary of State he has been
interested in interstate problems as they affect Maryland
and, by appointment of Governor Nice, is the first chairman
of the Maryland Commission on Intergovernmental Cooper-
ation, created by the Legislature of 1937. At the 1937 meet-
ing of the National Association of Secretaries of State he
was chosen a member of the Executive Committee of that
organization.

Executive Secretary: ROBERT IRVIN, (Republican), Balti-
more, Md.

Robert lrvin, son of David and Priscilla Morgan lrvin,
was born in Baltimore and educated in the schools and high
schools in the city. In 1915 he began a newspaper career
with the old Baltimore American and then went with the
Baltimore News. He served throughout the entire World
War with Maryland troops and at the close of the combat
was Regimental Sergeant Major with the 37th Regiment of
the 41st Brigade..1st Army. On May 11th, 1918, Mr. lrvin
married Miss Edward Myrtle Robinson. They have three
children. At the close of the war he returned to the Repor-
torial staff of the Baltimore News. In 1927 he served as
editor of the Municipal Journal and at the close of Mayor
Broening's administration was political writer for the
Hearst Newspapers. He was appointed Executive Secretary
to Governor Nice as of December 1st, 1934.

LEGAL DEPARTMENT

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,