Delegate Emanuel Gorfine, Democrat, of the Fourth Baltimore district, was unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Maryland General Assembly.
Mr. Gorfine has been a member of the House since 1930. He has a record of having answered every roll call and was outstanding in the sessions of 1931 and 1933.
He is 39 years old, a graduate of the University of Maryland Law School, 1917, and is a member of several fraternal organizations, being active in the affairs of the Shaarei Zion Congregation.
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