Crisfield, after which he entered the Wilmington Conference
Academy. He graduated from this institution in 1912 and
later entered Sadlers Bryant and Stratton Business College
in Baltimore where he completed a full course in banking
and accountancy. His first employment was with his father
who was then engaged in an extensive lumber manufac-
turing business. During this time he was also associated
with the active management of The Tawes-Gibson Packing
Company, a seafood canning concern. During the period
of the World War he was Secretary and Treasurer of the
Crisfield Shipbuilding Company, Inc., and served in this
capacity until the corporation was liquidated at the con-
clusion of the war. In 1920 he organized the Tawes Baking
Company, one of the largest industries of its kind on the
Delmarva Peninsula and has been Secretary and Treasurer
of this concern since its beginning. Mr. Tawes is director
of many business enterprises, including the Bank of Cris-
field and the McCready Memorial Hospital. He is a charter
member and past president of the Rotary Club of Crisfield,
also holds membership in the Crisfield Chamber of Com-
merce, Crisfield Library Association, and several other
civic and fraternal organizations in the State. He is Treas-
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. In 1942 he was a candidate without op-
position from either political party for re-election and was re-
turned to the office of Comptroller of the Treasury for another
term of four years. 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 STEELE MILES (Democrat),

Baltimore, Maryland.

Hooper Steele Miles, son of the late Alonzo Lee and Agnes
Hooper Miles, was born in Cambridge, Dorchester County,