He is a member of the Frederick County Bar Association
and maintains his law office in the Potomac Edison Building,
Frederick, Maryland. He is attorney for the Maryland
Industrial Finance Co., and the Frederick County Beer
Dealers' Association. A prominent fraternalist, he is
Past Commander of the Francis Scott Key Post American
Legion, Commander of Washington and Lee Chapter, Dis-
abled American Veterans of the World War, Past President
of the Frederick Kiwanis Club, Past Exalted Ruler of Fred-
erick Lodge No. 684, B. P. O. Elks, First Vice-President of
the State Elks Association, comprising Maryland, Delaware,
and the District of Columbia, President of the Catoctin
Country Club and a member of the Executive Committee of
the Frederick Cotillion Club.

LEGAL DEPARTMENT

Attorney General: *WILLIAM C. WALSH (Democrat),

Cumberland, Maryland.

William C. Walsh, son of the late William E. and Mary
Walsh, and grandson of William Walsh, was born in Cum-
berland, Maryland, on April 2, 1890. Both his father and
paternal grandfather were lawyers, and the latter was
elected a member of Congress from the Sixth District of
Maryland in 1874 and 1876, and also served as a member
of the Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1867.

Mr. Walsh received his early education in Saint Patrick's
Parochial School, Cumberland, Maryland, graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Mount St. Mary's
College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1910, and received his
Bachelor of Laws degree from the Catholic University of
America in .Washington, D. C., in 1913. He passed the
Maryland State Bar examination in the fall of 1912, about
six months before his graduation, and after his graduation,
began the practice of law with his father in Cumberland in
June, 1913. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws from Mount St. Mary's College in 1930.

He joined Company G, First Maryland Infantry, as a pri-
vate in June, 1916, when the National Guard was sent to
the Mexican Border, and served on the Border as a private
and a corporal.

In August, 1917, he went to Gamp McClellan, Anniston,
Alabama, as a sergeant in Company G, was commissioned
a Second Lieutenant in the Third Officers Training Camp
in May, 1918, and went overseas as a Second Lieutenant
in the Machine Gun Company of the 113th Infantry in