attended public school. Woodward Preparatory School and
George Washington University in Washington, D. C. He
graduated from Southeastern University and received his
Bachelor of Laws degree, and has been admitted to practice
before the Maryland Bar.

He was elected a member of the Maryland House of Dele-
gates and served in that body during the 1939-41 sessions.
He was appointed Chairman of the Special Investigating
Committee under Section 24 of Article 3 of the Constitution.

Mr. Jones is the junior partner of T. J. Jones & Sons,
General Contractors; is Chairman of the Board of the Rock
Bottom Country Club and of the Better Housing Program
for Prince George's County. Also he is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce and of the Citizens' Association of
Prince George's County. He was married in 1938 to Miss
Mary Virginia Chaney of Prince George's County. They
have no children.

Executive Secretary..AUGUST J. BOURBON, (Democrat)

Baltimore, Maryland.

August J. Bourbon, son of Mrs. Catherine McGuinness
Bourbon and the late August C. Bourbon, was born in Bal-
timore, October 19th, 1893. He attended St. John's Paro-
chial School; Loyola High School and Loyola College, re-
ceiving his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1914.

He was a member of the staff of the Baltimore Morning
and Evening Sun for several years until his entrance into
the "United States Army in June, 1917. He went to Alabama
with the Maryland National Guard as a Corporal in the
58th Infantry Brigade Headquarters; attended the 4th
Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Louis-
ville from June to August 1918, and was commissioned 2nd
Lieutenant.

Following his discharge from the Army in December,
1918, he was Advertising Manager for O'Neill and Com-
pany, Baltimore, for twenty years, later establishing his
own advertising agency. He was associated with Governor
0' Conor from the beginning of the Gubernatorial campaign,
and joined the Executive Department Staff immediately
following the Governor's inauguration. He was married
February 23, 1922, to Miss Gertrude Mae Reilly, of Jack-
sonville, Florida. They have eleven children.