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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 Ap-
peals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In
1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ap-
pointed him an Assistant U.S. Attorney for
Maryland. 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.
Mr. Sachs was appointed United States Attor-
ney for Maryland in 1967 by President Johnson.
He was in private law practice in Baltimore from
1970 until his election as attorney general, and
was at his election a partner of the firm of Frank,
Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman.
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 a former officer of the Yale
Law School Alumni Association. He is the co-au-
thor with John P. Roche of "The Bureaucrat and
the Enthusiast: A Study in the Leadership of So-
cial Movements," Western Political Quarterly
(July 1955).
Mr. Sachs and his wife Sheila, an attorney and
former member of the Baltimore City School
Board, reside 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
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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 in 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
Higinbothom 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 Wine-
land, Secretary of State Fred Wineland was born
in Washington, D.C., on August 16, 1926. Edu-
cated in the public schools of the District of Co-
lumbia, the Secretary attended American Univer-
sity and graduated from South Eastern Uni-
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