School, Winfield, Md. Retired merchant, secretary of life insurance
company, bank director. Committing Magistrate, Carroll County,
1946-5O. Member, Carroll County Selective Service Board since 1958.
Member, Carroll County Farm Bureau; official board, Taylorsville
Methodist Church; Lions; Masons; Tall Cedars of Lebanon. Married.
Member of the House of Delegates since 1959.

JOHN N. MAGUIRE, Democrat, Baltimore County; born in Wil-
mington, Del., September 19, 1914. Attended New Jersey public schools;
University of Virginia; University of Maryland; University of Mary-
land Law School, LL.B., 194O. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1947.
Served in the Counterintelligence Corps, 1942-45. Trial Magistrate,
Essex, 1949-55. President, Essex-Middle River Chamber of Commerce.
Member, Maryland and Baltimore County Bar Associations; Trial
Magistrates Association; Military Intelligence Association. Past presi-
dent, Middle River Rotary Club; member, Knights of Columbus. Mar-
ried. Member of the House of Delegates since 1955.

MARVIN MANDEL, Democrat, Baltimore 5th; born in Baltimore,
April 19, 192O. Attended Baltimore public schools; University of
Maryland; The Johns Hopkins University; University of Maryland
Law School, LL.B., 1942. Member of the Maryland Bar. Served in the
U. S. Army, 1942-44. Justice of the Peace, Baltimore City, 195O. Mem-
ber, Governor's Commission on Municipal Court for Baltimore City.
Member, Democratic State Central Committee, Baltimore City, 1951.
Member, American, Maryland and Baltimore Bar Associations; Ameri-
can Legion; Jewish War Veterans. Married. Member of the House of
Delegates since 1952. 1

CLARENCE B. MASON, Democrat, Washington County; born in
Pecktonville, December 13, 1888. Attended Pecktonville public schools.
Farmer. Served with U. S. Naval Aviation, 1917-19. Member, Wash-
ington County Soil Conservation Committee. Vice president, Wash-
ington County Farm Bureau. Former member, Farm Home Admin-
istration Committee. Married. Member of the House of Delegates, 1939-
43, and since 1959.

RICHARD M. MATTHEWS, Democrat, Dorchester County; born in
Cambridge, April 18, 1927. Attended Cambridge public schools; George
Washington University; University of Maryland; University of Mary-
land Law School, LL.B., 1953. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1953.
Served in the U. S. Maritime Service and the U. S. Army, 1945-47.
Member, Maryland Bar Association; Elks; Lions; Cambridge Yacht
Club; Dorchester County Historical Society. Married. Member of the
House of Delegates since 1959.

RIDGELY P. MELVIN, JR., Democrat, Anne Arundel County; born
in Annapolis, September 26, 1917. Attended Anne Arundel County
public schools; Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia; Princeton
University, B.A., 1940; University of Maryland Law School, LL.B.,
1947. Member of the Maryland Bar. Served with the U. S. Naval Re-
serve, 1940-45. Former counsel, Annapolis Sewerage Commission.
Member, American, Maryland, and past president, Anne Arundel
County Bar Associations; Rotary; Elks. Married. Member of the
House of Delegates since 1955. Chairman, Judiciary Committee since
1959.

THOMAS L. MERRYWEATHER, Democrat, Dorchester County;
born in Cambridge, May 23, 192O. Attended Cambridge public schools.

1 Appointed to the House of Delegates, January 29, 1952, vice Hugh Kennedy
resigned.