Bankers' Association, in session at Atlantic City. For many
years he has served as Treasurer, is now President and
also a director of the Peninsula General Hospital at Salis-
bury, and is now President and a Director of the John B.
Parsons Salisbury Home for the Aged.

During the World War Mr. Gordy took an active part in
his local community in all movements—Liberty Loan drives,
Red Cross work and other organized war activities.

In September, 1921, he was nominated by the Democratic
State Convention for Comptroller of the Treasury, and was
elected in November of that year. He was renominated in
September, 1923, and re-elected in November for a term of
three years.

In September, 1926, he was again nominated, and re-
elected in November, 1926, for a term of four years.

In September, 1930, Mr. Gordy was renominated, and in
November, 1930, he was re-elected for another term of four
years.

Mr. Gordy was a Delegate to the Democratic National Con-
ventions in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

In September, 1934, Mr. Gordy was renominated and in
November, 1934, he was re-elected for another term of four
years.

Comptroller of the Treasury-Elect: J. MILLARD TAWES

(Democrat), Crisfield, Maryland.
J. Millard Tawes, son of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Tawes,
was born in Crisfield, Somerset County, Maryland, on April
8, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of Crisfield,
after which he entered the Wilmington Conference Acad-
emy. He graduated from this institution in 1912 and later
entered Sadlers Bryant and Straton Business College in
Baltimore where he completed a full course in banking and
accountancy. His first employment was with his father
who was then engaged in an extensive lumber manufactur-
ing business. During this time he was also associated with
the active management of The Tawes-Gibson Packing Com-
pany, a seafood canning concern. During the period of
the World War he was Secretary and Treasurer of the Cris-
field Shipbuilding Company, Inc., and served in this capacity
until the corporation was liquidated at the conclusion of the
war. In 1920 he organized the Tawes Baking Company,
one of the largest industries of its kind on the Delmarva
Peninsula and has been Secretary and Treasurer of this
concern since its beginning . Mr. Tawes is director of many
business enterprises, including the Bank of Crisfield and