the McCready Memorial Hospital. He is a charter member
and past president of the Rotary Club of Crisfield, also holds
membership in the Crisfield Chamber of Commerce, Cris-
field Library Association, and several other civic and fra-
ternal organizations in the State. He is Treasurer of the
Wilmington Conference Society of Education and Chairman
of the Crisfield Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mr.
Tawes is a past president of the Maryland State Volunteer
Firemen's Association. He is also a member of the Elks,
a past Grand Chancellor and Supreme Representative of
the Knights of Pythias, and holds membership in several
clubs. In 1930 Mr. Tawes was nominated and elected
to the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset
County and in 1934 was unanimously chosen by his party
as a nominee for reelection and served for another term
of four years. In 1988 Mr. Tawes was nominated as a
candidate for the office of Comptroller of the Treasury
on the Democratic ticket and was elected to this office on
November 8th, 1938. Mr. Tawes was married in 1915 to
Miss Helen Avalynne Gibson, daughter of the late Oliver
P. and May A. Gibson of Crisfield. Mr. and Mrs. Tawes re-
side in Crisfield and have two children—one daughter and
one son.

State Treasurer: HOOPER STEELE MILES (Democrat), Salis-
bury, Md.

Hooper Steele Miles, son of Mrs. Agnes Hooper Miles and
the late Alonzo L. Miles, was born in Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Maryland, January 27th, 1895, and shortly there-
after moved to Baltimore City with his parents, where he
resided until they removed to Salisbury, in 1913.

He was educated in the public schools of Baltimore City
and was graduated from the Law School of the University
of Maryland in 1916. He was admitted to the Bar in the
same year and immediately began the practice of law in
Salisbury with his father under the firm name of Miles and
Miles. Upon the death of his father in November, 1917, he
continued to practice alone for several years and in 1925 he
formed the law firm of Miles, Bailey and Williams in Salis-
bury, of which he is now the senior member.

He was a Delegate from Wicomico County to the House of
Delegates at the 1920 session of the Genera] Assembly and
from 1925 to 1932 was City Solicitor for the City of Salis-
bury. He served as a member of the State Tax Survey Com-
mission appointed in 1931 by Governor Ritchie pursuant to
a joint resolution of the General Assembly, and in 1932 as