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6 unusual facts about Maryland House of Delegates


Annotated Code of Maryland

The Annotated Code of Maryland is amended through the legislative process involving both bodies of the Maryland General Assembly, the House of Delegates and the Senate.

Greenbelt News Review

In 1965, an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher in the News Review published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as "blackmail" the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a local real estate developer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Mary Elizabeth Banning

The Bannings were a well-established Maryland family: Mary Elizabeth's grandfather was a representative at Maryland's ratification of the federal constitution, and her father was a military captain, Collector of the Port of Oxford, and Member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Sam Havrilak

Sam is an uncle of Maryland State Delegate Eric Bromwell.

Samuel I. Rosenberg

Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg (born May 18, 1950) is an American politician who represents the 41st legislative district in the Maryland House of Delegates.

Truck nuts

In 2007, a proposal was made by Maryland politician LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to prohibit motorists from "displaying anything resembling or depicting 'anatomically correct' or 'less than completely and opaquely covered' human or animal genitals, human buttocks or female breasts".


Adrienne A. Jones

Adrienne A. Jones (born November 20, 1954) is the current Speaker Pro Tem of the Maryland House of Delegates, the first African-American female to serve in that position in Maryland.

Carrie Geldart

Carrie Geldart is an American politician from Severna Park, Maryland and a 2006 candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 33A.

Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

Keiffer J. Mitchell, Jr. was a Baltimore City Councilman and currently serves in the Maryland House of Delegates from the 44th district.

Delman Coates

Maryland House of Delegates member Heather Mizeur named Coates as her running mate in the 2014 race for governor.

John T. White

His poem "Maryland, My Maryland," written in 1894 as an alternate set of lyrics for the Maryland state song has recently seen renewed attention as it has been considered by the Maryland House of Delegates in 2009 to officially replace the existing lyrics by James Ryder Randall, which have been criticized for their Confederate sympathies and martial tone.

John Thomson Mason, Jr.

Mason later served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1838 and 1839, and was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving one term from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843.

Thomas Parran, Sr.

He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1884 to 1888, and served as chief deputy collector for the Bureau of Internal Revenue for the Baltimore district from 1889 to 1893.

William S. James

He quickly rose to prominence in the legal community, and served as a trial magistrate in Havre de Grace from 1944 to 1946, a position he left when he won election to the Maryland House of Delegates representing Harford County.


see also

Barbara Robinson

Barbara A. Robinson (born 1938), member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Bonsack

Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, American politician who represents district 34 in the Maryland House of Delegates

Christine Jones

Christine M. Jones (born 1929), former member of the Maryland House of Delegates

DeBoy

Steven J. DeBoy, Sr. (born 1956), Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Dennis McCoy

Dennis C. McCoy (born 1942), former American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

Herman Taylor

Herman L. Taylor, Jr. (born 1966), American member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Hood College

Kelly M. Schulz, 2006, American politician and member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Sue Hecht, 1985, American politician, member of the Democratic Party, and the Maryland House of delegates

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

John A. Giannetti, Jr.

He was defeated in the 2006 Democratic primary by former member of the Maryland House of Delegates and U.S. Ambassador to Romania James Rosapepe.

Keith Haynes

Keith E. Haynes (born 1963), American politician and lawyer, member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Michael Busch

Michael E. Busch (born 1947), Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates

Parren Mitchell

Maryland House of Delegates majority whip Talmadge Branch was an early aide, Delegate Nathaniel Oaks volunteered in Mitchell's early campaigns, as did Delegates Sandy Rosenberg and Curt Anderson.

Patrick Hogan

Patrick N. Hogan (born 1979), former member of Maryland House of Delegates

Patrick McDonough

Pat McDonough (born 1943), Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Robert Costa

Robert A. Costa, American politician and member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Sasscer

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, Jr. was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, first elected in 1954.

Shewell

Tanya Thornton Shewell (born 1944), American politician and member of the Maryland House of Delegates