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JOSEPH R. BYRNBS, President of the Senate, Democrat, Baltimore
6th; born in Baltimore, May 9, 1900. He attended the public schools
of that city, Loyola College, The Johns Hopkins University, and the
University of Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1931. He was
admitted 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, as a member
of the Baltimore City Charter Advisory Committee. Married. Elected
to the Senate in 1942, he served as Chairman of the Judicial Pro
ceedings Committee. He was elected President of the Senate in
1947, 1949 and 1950.

WILMER C. CARTER, Democrat, Baltimore 3rd; born in Baltimore,
February 12, 1892. He attended the public schools of Baltimore and
The Johns Hopkins University. He is engaged in the insurance
business. Married. Elected to the Senate in 1938.

ROY TASCO DA vis, 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-
mala-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 Colombia and Ecuador, 1942-1943; Chairman of the
Commission to study the Educational System of Bolivia, 1944.
Married. Elected to the Senate in 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. Received B.B.A. degree from the
University of Baltimore, 1932; graduated from the University of
Baltimore Law School in 1935 and was admitted to the Bar in 1936.
Chairman, Insurance and Loans Committee, 1945 and 1947; chair-
man, Judicial Proceedings Committee, 1949. Married. Appointed
to the Senate in 1939.

DANIEL ELLISON, Republican, Baltimore 4th; born in Baltimore,
February 14, 1886; educated in the public schools of Baltimore and
attended The Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1937; Uni-
versity of Maryland Law School, graduating in 1909. Attorney.
He was a member of Baltimore City Council, 1923-1942; member of
78th Congress of the U.S., representing the 4th Congressional Dis-
trict. Unmarried. Elected to the Senate in 1946.

NEIL C. FKALEY, Republican, Garrett County; born at Oakland,
Maryland, April 18,1894. Attended the public schools of Oakland and
the University of Maryland Law School. Admitted to the Bar in
1931. Currently engaged in the practice of law. Served in the
U. S. Army in 1918. State's Attorney for Garrett County, 193R-
1947. Attorney to the Board of County Commissioners since 1947.
Married. Appointed to the Senate in 1949.