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

Mr. O'Gonor 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.

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, he 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.

At the annual meeting of the Governors in Asheville, North
Carolina, June, 1942, Governor O'Conor was elected Chairman
of the Governors' Conference, the first Maryland Governor
ever so honored. In November, 1943, at the annual meeting
of the Council of State Governments in Chicago, he was elected
President of that body, which includes, besides the Governors'
Conference, various State and interstate Governmental groups.

In May 1943, when, following four regional conferences, the
Council of State Governments established the Interstate Com-
mittee on Post-War Reconstruction and Development, Gov-
ernor O'Conor became, ex-officio, its National Chairman.

Breaking a precedent of 35 year's standing the Governors'
Conference, at its 35th and largest annual meeting, in Colum-
bus, Ohio, June 20-24, 1943, retained Governor O'Conor as a
member of the Executive Committee, and unanimously adopted
a resolution expressing appreciation of his "patriotic and faith-
ful service, which has been of such benefit to the Governors of
all the States and to the Nation..during one of the most im-
portant years in the history of the Governors' Conference.'"

The Governor has received honorary degrees of Doctor
of Laws from the University of Maryland, Loyola College