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TEflflA riAfllAE 27) t m ; i Governor Albert C. Ritchie LBERT C. RITCHIE was born August 29. 1876. Mr. Ritchie received his early education in private schools in Baltimore and graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1896 with the degree of A.B., and from the University of Maryland Law School in 1898 with the degree of LL.B. In 1920 he received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Maryland and from St. John ' s College, and in 192 3 from Washington College. In 1907 he was appointed Professor of Law at the University of Mary- land Law School and served in this capacity until his election as Governor. On July 1, 1910, Mr. Ritchie became Assistant General Counsel lo the Public Service Commission. This is the position popularly known as People ' s Counsel, and it was in this capacity that Mr. Ritchie represented the people of Baltimore in his noteworthy fight for cheaper gas and electricity. On February 16, 1913. Mr. Ritchie resigned this position to devote his time to private practice. In September, 1915, Mr. Ritchie was nominated in the direct primary on the Democratic ticket for Attorney-General of Maryland, and in November, 1915, he was elected to that office by a majority of 25.000. Mr. Ritchie served as Attorney-General from December 20. 1915. to De- cember 20, 1919. He organized the first State Law Department of Maryland, which took over the legal work of all of the State Departments except the Public Service Commission, thus doing away with the employment of numer- ous special counsel, and resulting both in economy and increased efficiency to the State. At the War Session of 1917 he prepared or supervised all special Lgislation made necessary by the war, and this work served as a model in many States. On June 3, 1918. Mr. Ritchie was appointed General Counsel to the United States War Industries Board, serving in this capacity until December, 1918, when the Board was dissolved. He secured a leave of absence from his duties as Attorney-General and moved to Washington in order to devote his entire time to war work. In September, 1919, Mr. Ritchie was nominated without opposition as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Maryland, and in November, 1919, he was elected. He thereby won a signal victory, converting a Republican plurality of 10,000 in the Baltimore City Mayoralty election of May. 1919, into a Democratic plurality of 1,800 in November of the same year. Governor Ritchie was elected President of the Maryland State Bar Asso- ciation for the year 1922-2 3, In September, 1923, Governor Ritchie was renominated without oppo- sition for a second term as Governor, and in November, 1923, was re-elected by a plurality of over 40,000. Maryland has elected her Governors by popular vote since 1838. During all that time no Democratic Governor had ever been renominated, and no Governor of either party had ever been re-elected. Governor Ritchie broke both precedents. In September, 1926, Governor Ritchie was renominated for a third term, receiving a majority in the primary of over 81,500 and the unanimous vote of the Democratic State Convention. He was re-elected in November. 1926, by a majority of nearly 61,000 the largest ever received by a candidate for Governor in the history of the State. Eight
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