In Brief: Morgan Exec for CEO At Mercantile of Md.

Mercantile Bankshares of Baltimore has selected a managing director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to succeed its longtime chief executive officer.

Edward J. Kelley 3d, 47, will take over from H. Furlong Baldwin, who plans to retire March 1 after 25 years leading the $8.9 billion-asset company.

Mr. Kelley, a lawyer who served as law clerk for the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. in 1982-83, joined J.P. Morgan as its general counsel and secretary in 1994.

When Mr. Baldwin became its CEO in 1976, Mercantile owned 10 banks and had assets of $783 million. Today it is the holding company for 21 banks in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.

Mr. Baldwin, 69, will remain with Mercantile as its nonexecutive chairman of the board.

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