ing the period of the World War I he was Secretary and
Treasurer of the Crisfield Shipbuilding Company, Inc., and
served in this capacity until the corporation was liquidated
at the conclusion 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 Crisfield 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 Commerce, Crisfield Library Association, and
several other civic and fraternal organizations in the State.
He is Treasurer 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 member of the Elks, a past Grand Chancellor and
Supreme Representative of the Knights of Pythias, and
holds membership 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 unani-
mously 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 can-
didate without opposition from either political party for
re-election and was returned 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, daugh-
ter of the late Oliver P. and May A. Gibson of Crisfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Tawes reside in Crisfield and have two chil-
dren—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,
Maryland, January 27th, 1895, and shortly thereafter moved
to Baltimore City with his parents, where he resided until
they moved to Salisbury, Maryland, in 1913.

He was educated in the public schools of Baltimore and
was graduated from the Law School of the University of