a two-year term. In 1936 he was elected to the Presidency
of the Anne Arundel County Bar Association, and in 1941
he became a member of the Executive Council of the Mary-
land State Bar Association, in which organization he has
served on numerous committees, and at the present time is
Chairman of the Committee on Grievances. In 1943, he
became Chairman of the Local Selective Service Board in
Annapolis, which post he still holds. He is a member of
the American Bar Association, the Annapolis Yacht Club,
the Annapolitan Club, the Rule Day Club of Baltimore City,
Phi Kappa Sigma and numerous other organizations.

In 1932 Mr. McWilliams married Miss Helen C. A. Disha-
ron, of Baltimore City, who died in 1939. They had three
children. In 1940 he married Miss Nancy Butler Leighton,
of New York City. They have one child. They live at 61
Franklin Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

Executive Secretary: AUGUST J. BOURBON (Democrat),
Baltimore, Maryland.

August J. Bourbon, son of the late August C. and Cath-
erine McGuinness Bourbon, was born in Baltimore, October
19th, 1893. He attended St. John's Parochial School; Loyola
High School and Loyola College, receiving his Bachelor of
Arts Degree in 1914.

He was a member of the staff of the Baltimore Morning
and Evening Sun for several years until his entrance into
the United States Army in June, 1917. He went to Alabama
with the Maryland National Guard as a Corporal in the
58th Infantry Brigade Headquarters; attended the 4th Field
Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Louisville
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.