on the Committee on Criminal Law and Statistics of the
American Prison Association.

Mr. O'Conor in 1937 was president of the National Asso-
ciation of Attorneys General. He has taken a leading part
throughout the country in the adoption of Interstate Com-
pacts and was designated as the Chairman of the Maryland
Commission on that subject. Legislation proposed by the
Commission was adopted without change by the General
Assembly.

Mr. O'Conor was nominated as the Democratic candidate
for Governor and was elected to that office in the general
election of November 8th, 1938, by a majority of over
65,000.

The Governor has received honorary degrees of Doctor
of Laws from the University of Maryland, Loyola College
of Baltimore, Villanova College of Pennsylvania, George-
town University of Washington, D. C. and Washington
College at Chestertown. He is a member of the American
Bar Association, the Maryland State and the Baltimore
City Bar Associations; he is also a member of the Elks,
Moose, Eagles, Knights of Columbus, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, American Legion, Phi Kappa Sigma, and holds mem-
bership in other clubs. '

In June 1940, Governor O'Conor was selected by the
Governors of the United States as a member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Governors' Conference, the Governing
Body of the Governors' Conference, and in June 1941 he
was appointed Chairman of the Governors' Committee on
Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice of the
Conference. In the spring of 1941, Governor O'Conor was
designated as Chairman of the Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin, an agency of the States and the
District of Columbia situate in the Potomac River area.
The purpose of the Commission is to cooperate in the abate-
ment of the existing pollution of the River and in the con-
trol of future pollution of the waters of the drainage basin
and to further the interests of the sections along the Poto-
mac River.

Secretary of State: (Democrat)

THOMAS ELMO JONES, Fairfield, Prince George's County,

Maryland.

Thomas Elmo Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Jones,
was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 17, 1906. He