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
O'Conor from the beginning of the Gubernatorial campaign,
and joined the Executive Department Staff immediately
following the Governor's inauguration, becoming Executive
Secretary on May 1, 1939. He was married February 23, 1922,
to Miss Gertrude Mae Reilly, of Jacksonville, Florida. They
have twelve children.

LEGAL DEPARTMENT

Attorney General: WILLIAM C. WALSH (Democrat), Cum-
berland, 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 Camp McClellan, Anniston,
Alabama, as a sergeant in Company G, was commissioned
a Second Lieutenant in the Third Officers Training Camp