ROY G. FINCH.

Roy G. Finch, State Engineer and Surveyor, was born August 17, 1884, at Eagle Bridge, N. Y., receiving bis early schooling in the public schools of Granville, Washington county. He entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy in 1902, graduating in 1906 with the degree of Civil Engineer. After two years of railroad engineering, Mr. Finch, as a result of a competitive civil service examination, was appointed to one of the subordinate positions in the engineering forces of the State Engineer.

During the years that followed, Mr. Finch advanced through the engineering grades of the Department until in 1919 he was appointed Deputy State Engineer. In this capacity he became thoroughly familiar with the many important and varied engineering projects of the State. Mr. Finch held this position for four years, retiring in 1923 to a private practice of his profession. Mr. Finch is married and resides in Albany.

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ALBERT OTTINGER.

Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General, was born in New York city on September 10, 1878. He received his early education in the public schools of that city, then entered New York University and New York University Law School where he pursued his legal studies. He was admitted to the Bar in 1900.

Elected to the State Senate in 1916, he advocated laws providing for the relief of tenement house congestion, improvement of Riverside Park, protection of purchasers from weights and measures frauds, safeguards of the public health, guidance for children of wayward and incorrigible tendencies and the penalization of discrimination against persons because of race, creed or color.

He introduced the first Vehicular Traffic Tunnel bill providing for the construction of this underground commercial artery between New York and New Jersey. He introduced the Port Development bill which culminated in the establishment of the New York Port Authority. He was appointed Assistant Attorney-General of the United States in August, 1921, by President Harding. In that capacity he argued and won many important cases in the United States Supreme Court. He wrote numerous opinions for the President and members of the Cabinet.

His opinions clarifying the Soldiers' Bonus, War Risk Insurance and Adjusted Compensation-proposals with a view to aiding the veterans-and his vigorous and successful prosecution of the Locomotive Inspection Law, designed by Congress to protect the lives of employees of the carriers and the traveling public, are conspicuous features of his career in Washington.

Mr. Ottinger served as chairman of the Committee on State Legislation for the New York Republican County Committee. He was executive member of the New York Republican County Committee, and represented the old fifteenth Assembly District. He was President of the Seventh District Republican Club of New York City.