Department Secretaries/155
PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

The fifteen principal departments of State government are: Agriculture, Budget and Fiscal Planning,
Economic and Employment Development, Education, Environment, General Services, Health and Mental
Hygiene, Housing and Community Development, Human Resources, Licensing and Regulation, Natural
Resources, Personnel, Public Safety and Correctional Services, State Planning, and Transportation. Except
for Education, the head of each department is the Secretary, appointed by the Governor subject to Senate
confirmation. The head of the State Department of Education is the Board of Education, which appoints the
State Superintendent of Schools.

CHARLES L. BENTON, JR., Secretary of Budget and Fiscal Planning, 1987- Born in
Baltimore,May 20,1916. University ofMaryland,B.A. (business and public administration), 1938;

M.A. (economics), 1940. Certified Public Accountant, 1940. Professor of Accounting, University
of Maryland, 1940-1943. Comptroller, University of Maryland, 1943-1946. Director of Finance
and Business, University of Maryland, 1946-1956. Budget Director, City of Baltimore, 1956-
1965. Director, Finance Department, City of Baltimore, 1965-1986. Fiscal Advisor to the
Governor, 1987. Member, Commission on State and County Finance, 1962-1965. Past President
and Founder, Baltimore City Foundation. Past President, Lexington Market; Baltimore Yacht
Basin. Past Trustee, Loan and Guaranty Programs of the City of Baltimore. Past Chairman,
Municipal Employees Credit Union; Maryland Credit Union Insurance Corporation. Past Director,
Baltimore Economic Development Corporation. Office address: Goldstein Treasury Building,
4th floor, 60 Calvert St., Annapolis 21401.

TORREY C. BROWN, Secretary of Natural Resources, 1983- Bom in Chicago, Illinois
February 28, 1937. Attended Chicago public schools; Wheaton College, A.B., 1957; The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, M.D., 1961. Physician. Served with the U.S. Public
Health Service, 1963-1965. Member, Alpha Omega Alpha; The Johns Hopkins Medical Society;

American Heart Association; Southern Salt, Water and Kidney Club; American Federation foi
Clinical Research; American Society ofNephrology; American Board of Internal Medicine; Fello»
of the American College of Physicians. Contributor to many medical journals. Married. Member ol
the House of Delegates, 1971-1983. Office address: Tawes State Office Building, Annapolis
21401.

WAYNE A. CAWLEY,JR., Secretary of Agriculture, 1979-Doni October 4,1923, in Dcnton,
Maryland. Washington College, B.A. (economics), 1948; attended the University of Maryland
School of Law. Served in the 82nd Airborne Divison's 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World
War n, with combat service in the European Theater. Farmer for thirty years, currently operating
with sons a grain farm on the Eastern Shore. Former vice-president, Denton Natonal Bank, and
director of the bank's Farm Department. Past president of Rotary; former vice-president, Caroline
County Farm Bureau. Named Caroline County's "Outstanding Farmer" in 1974. Member,
Emergency Management Advisory Council; Governor's Council on the Environment. Ex officio
member, Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission; Board of Regents of the University of
Maryland. Immediate Past President, Southern Association State Departments of Agriculture.
Secretary-Treasurer, Southern U.S. Trade Association. Married to Barbara Wynne Cooper; 5
children. Office address: 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis 21401.