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Bouic, William Veirs

lawyer, was born July 20, 1846, near Rockville, Md.

He attended the Rockville academy until seventeen years of age; then attended the Columbian university of Washington, graduating therefrom in 1868 as A. B., afterward receiving the degree of A. M. from the same university. He studied law under the instruction of his father, the late Judge William Veirs Bouic, and since his admission to the bar in 1870 has been engaged continuously in that profession, and is now the vice-president of the Maryland Bar association. For seventeen years he was mayor of Rockville, Md.; chairman of the judicial and congressional conventions of the sixth district of Maryland; and presidential elector in 1892.

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