urer 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 mem-
ber of the Elks, a past Grand Chancellor and Supreme
Representative of the Knights of Pythias, and holds mem-
bership 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 1938 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
reside in Crisfield and have two children..one daughter
and one son.

State Treasurer: HOOPER STEELS MILES (Democrat),

Baltimore, Maryland.

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 moved 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 General 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
a member of the State Banking Commission appointed by
Governor Ritchie to review the State Banking Laws and
Regulations. Mr. Miles was Chairman of the State Demo-
cratic Campaign Committee during the Gubernatorial and
Congressional campaign of 1934 and was elected Treasurer