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

Mr. O'Conor 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 Govern-
ing 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.

In November 1942 Governor O'Conor was re-elected by
the people of Maryland to serve for a second term as Chief
Executive.

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
Committee on Post-War Reconstruction and Development,
Governor O'Conor became, ex-officio, its National Chair-
man.

Breaking a precedent of 35 years' standing the Governors'
Conference, at its 35th and largest annual meeting, in
Columbus, Ohio, June 20-24, 1943, retained Governor
O'Conor as a member of the Executive Committee, and