EXECUTIVE BRANCH

CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS

FORMER GOVERNOR

Member, Senate, representing Caroline County and District 15 (Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties), 1959-70. Member, Aviation, Roads and Transportation Committee, 1959-62; Elections Committee, 1959-62 (vice-chair, 1961-62); Public Buildings Committee, 1959-62 (vice-chair, 1961-62); Maryland Intergovernmental Cooperation Commission, 1959-64, 1967-70; Legislative Council, 1961, 1965-70. Chair, Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters, 1962-64 (member, 1962-65). Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, 1963-64. Vice-Chair, Education Committee 1963-64. Chair, Special Legislative Committee on State-Local Fiscal Relations, 1965. Member, Rules Committee, 1965-68 (vice-chair, 1968-70). Chair, Finance Committee, 1965-70 (member, 1959-62; vice-chair, 1963-64). Majority Leader, 1965-70. Member, Joint Committee on Organization and Procedure, 1966. Chair, Joint Legislative-Executive Committee to Study Taxation and Fiscal Problems, 1967. Chair, Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 1968-69. Chair, Joint Budget and Audit Committee, 1968-70.

Member, Committee on More Equitable Representation in the General Assembly, 1959; Governor's Commission on City-County Fiscal Relationships, 1959-63; Governor's Commission to Study Reapportionment, 1962; Commission to Study Changes and Basis of Selection for Patuxent Institution, 1964-. Chair, Governor's Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Reform, 1966-67. Chair, Taxation and Fiscal Reform Problems Study Commission, 1967. Chair Legislative Liaison Committee for the Constitutional Convention, 1967.

Secretary of Transportation, 1970-77. Member, Governor's Executive Council, 1970-77; Maryland Highway Safety Coordinating Committee, 1970-77; Regional Planning Council, 1970-77; Friendship International Airport Authority, 1970-77; Washington Suburban Transit Commission, 1970-77; Emergency Resource Priorities Board, 1970-77. Chair, Maryland Transportation Authority, 1970-77. Member, Chesapeake Bay Interagency Committee, c. 1973. Chair, State Aviation System Plan Policy Committee, 1973. Member, Commission to Review Maryland's Procedures for Awarding Noncompetitive State Contracts, 1973.

Governor, 1979-87. Chair, Emergency Resources Priorities Board, 1979-81; Board of Public Works, 1979-87; State Commission on the Capitol City, 1979-87; Maryland Council on the Economy, Environment, and Energy Production, 1979-87; Maryland Environmental Trust, 1979-87; State House Trust, 1979-87; Maryland Veterans Home Commission, 1979-87. Member, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1979-87; Maryland Historical Trust, 1979-87; Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, 1979-87; Susquehanna River Basin Commission, 1979-87; Interstate Oil Compact Commission, 1979-87; Interstate Mining Commission, 1979-87. Chair, Maryland Highway Safety Coordinating Committee, 1979-87. Member, Maryland Education Council, 1979-87; Southern Regional Education Board, 1979-87.

Member, Chesapeake Bay Trust, 1995-. Board of Regents, University System of Maryland, 1996-2000. Chair, Blue Ribbon Citizens Pfiesteria Commission, 1997. Chair, Maryland Appellate Judicial Nominating Commission, 1999-. Member, Committee to Establish the Maryland Survivors Scholarship Fund, 2001-02.

Born in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, November 13, 1926. Attended Caroline County public schools; Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Served in U.S. Navy Air Corps, WWII (Navy V-5 & aviation cadet training). Mt. St. Mary's College; University of Maryland, B.S., 1949; George Washington University School of Law, LL.B., 1952. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1952. Attorney. Member, American, Maryland and Caroline County Bar Associations. Chair, Democratic State Central Committee, 1966-70. Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 1996. Member, Rotary; American Legion. Married to the former Patricia Donoho; two daughters.

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