During his last year in law school, Mr. Sachs
taught Constitutional Law at Yale College. From
1960 to 1961, he served as a law clerk to the late
Judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy
appointed him an Assistant U.S. Attorney. He
served in that capacity until 1964.
From 1964 to 1967, Mr. Sachs was an associ-
ate and partner in the law firm of Tydings, Ro-
senberg & Gallagher. He served as reporter to the
Committee on State Finance and Taxation of the
State of Maryland Constitutional Convention
Commission from 1965 to 1967.
Appointed United States Attorney for Mary-
land in 1967 by President Johnson, Mr. Sachs
earned a national reputation for fighting white
collar crime and corruption. Since 1970, Mr.
Sachs has been in private law practice, and was
at his election a partner of the firm of Frank,
Bernstein, Conaway & Gordman.
Mr. Sachs was admitted to the Maryland Bar
in 1960 and to the Supreme Court Bar in 1965.
He has served on the Boards of the Baltimore Ur-
ban Coalition, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Si-
nai Hospital, the Baltimore Regional Red Cross,
and the Baltimore Bar Foundation, Inc., and he
taught Criminal Procedure and Trial Practice at
the University of Maryland Law School from
1969 to 1976.
Mr, Sachs is a fellow of The American College
of Trial Lawyers and an Officer of the Yale Law
School Alumni Association. He is the co-author
with John P. Roche of "The Bureaucrat and the
Enthusiast: A Study in the Leadership of Social
Movements," Western Political Quarterly (July
1955).
Mr. Sachs and his wife Sheila, an attorney and
member of the Baltimore City School Board, re-
side in Baltimore with their children, Elisabeth
and Leon.
WILLIAM S. JAMES
State Treasurer
William S. James, the State Treasurer, was
born in Aberdeen, the son of E. Roy and Mary
S. James, on February 14, 1914. He attended the
public schools of Cecil and Harford counties. The
Tome School at Port Deposit, the University of
Delaware, and the University of Maryland School
of Law from which he received the degree of J.D.
in 1937. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in

1937 and practiced law in Bel Air from that date
until 1975. He served as a Trial Magistrate for
Havre de Grace between 1944 and 1946, when he
was elected to represent Harford County in the
House of Delegates. He served in that body until
1954 when he was elected to the State Senate,
serving continuously until 1975. In 1963 he was
elected President of the Senate and served in that
post until his retirement m 1975. Mr. James was
Second Vice President of the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1967-1968, and in 1971 he became the
Chairperson of the Democratic State Central
Committee of Maryland, a position he resigned
after he became State Treasurer. He was elected
State Treasurer in January 1975 and again in Jan-
uary 1979 for terms of four years.
Mr. James was married to the former Margaret
Higinbotham on January 16, 1954. They have one
son, Robert Roy, and a daughter, Mary Dulany
James. The James family resides at Old Bay
Farm, Route No. 1, Havre de Grace.
FRED L. WINELAND
Secretary of State
The son of Lloyd J. and Elsie Pezold Wineland,
Secretary of State Fred Wineland was born in
Washington, D.C., on August 16, 1926. Educated
in the public schools of the District of Columbia,
the Secretary attended American University and
graduated from South Eastern University. He
joined Wineland Enterprises — a chain of motion
picture theaters and closed-circuit television