WILLIAM P. BOLTON, Democrat, Baltimore County; born in White-
ford, Maryland, July 2, 1885. He attended the public school at White-
ford and St. Francis School in Towson before entering the University
of Baltimore from which he graduated in 1909; admitted to the Bar
the same year, and is now engaged in active legal practice. He served
as Trial Magistrate in Towson 1942-1946, entering the Senate in 1947.
During the War he served as Appeal Agent for the Local Selective
Service Board and as a member of the State Appeal Board in 1944..

JOSEPH R. BYRNES, President of the Senate, Democrat, Baltimore
6th; born in Baltimore, May 9, 1900. He attended the public schools
of that city, Loyola College, John Hopkins University, and the Uni-
versity of Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1931. He was ad-
mitted to the Bar the following year and is now engaged in active
legal practice. Prior to his admittance to the Bar he was Clerk of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore. He served as Chairman of a
Selective Service Advisory Board during the War, as a member of
the Maryland Commission on Juvenile Delinquency, 1941. Elected to
the Senate in 1942, he served as Chairman of the Judicial Proceedings
Committee. He was elected President of the Senate in 1947..

WILMER C. CARTER, Democrat, Baltimore 3rd; born in Baltimore,
February 12, 1892. He attended the public schools of Baltimore and
Johns Hopkins University. He is engaged in the insurance business.
Entered the Senate in 1939..

ROY TASCO DAVIS, Republican, Montgomery County; born June 24,
1889 in Ewing, Missouri. Educated in the public schools of Missouri
and Brown University, from which he graduated in 1910. An edu-
cator, he is director of the Inter-American Schools Service of the
American Council on Education; he has served as Assistant to the
President of Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1934-1937, and as
President of National Park College, Silver Spring, 1937-1942. He has
served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Guate-
mala, Costa Rica and Panama, 1921-1933; Mediator of the Guate-
malan-Honduras Boundary Dispute, 1928; U. S. Delegate to Inter-
national Radio Conference at Mexico City, 1933; appointed non-
national member Guatemalan Commission on Arbitration and
Conciliation, 1935; Member of Mission for the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to Columbia and Ecuador, 1942-1943; Chairman of the
Commission to study the Educational System of Bolivia, 1944. Elected
to Senate 1946..

GEORGE W. DELLA, Democrat, Baltimore 6th; born in Baltimore,
February 9, 1908, attending the public schools of that City and Balti-
more City College, graduating 1927; he attended the University of
Baltimore Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1935. He was
elected to the Senate in 1938..

WILBUR R. DULIN, Democrat, Anne Arundel County; born in An-
napolis, June 9, 1909. He attended the public schools of Anne Arundel
County; St. John's College, graduating in 1927; the University of
Maryland, and was admitted to the Bar in 1936. He is currently en-
gaged in legal practice in Annapolis. Mr. Dulin served as a mem-
ber of the House of Delegates 1935-39; Chairman Anne Arundel
Liquor License Commission, 1939-1940; and was elected to the Senate
in 1942. During the War, he held a commission as First Lieutenant
in the Maryland State Guard..