UNITED STATES SENATE

[photo, Paul S. Sarbanes, U.S. Senator (Maryland)] PAUL SPYROS SARBANES (Democrat), U.S. Senator from Maryland

309 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4524
e-mail: senator@sarbanes.senate.gov
fax: (202) 224-1651
ttd: (202) 224-3452
web: sarbanes.senate.gov


Member of U.S. Senate since 1977. Member, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, 1977- (ranking member, 2003-; chair, 2001-02). Member, Foreign Relations Committee, 1977- (subcommittee on near eastern & south asian affairs, 1977-; subcommittee on european affairs, 1981-; subcommittee on african affairs, 1997-2001; chair, subcommittee on international economic policy, export & trade promotion, 2002-, member, 1989-); Committee on the Budget, 1993-; Joint Economic Committee, 1995-. Chair, Maryland Congressional Delegation. Regional Vice-Chair, Democratic Policy Committee.

Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1971-77. Member, Judiciary Committee; Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee; Select Committee on House Reorganization.

Member, Maryland House of Delegates, 1967-71. Member, Judiciary Committee, 1967; Ways and Means Committee, 1968-71. Vice-Chair, Baltimore City Delegation, 1968.

Legislative draftsman, Department of Legislative Reference, 1961 session of General Assembly. Administrative assistant to Walter W. Heller, chair of President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1962-63. Executive Director, Charter Revision Commission, Baltimore City, 1963-64. Member, Bainbridge Re-Use Advisory Committee, 1996-97; Advisory Board, Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, Salisbury University, 2002-. Born in Salisbury, Maryland, February 3, 1933. Attended Wicomico Senior High School; Princeton University, A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1954; Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University, first class B.A., honours in School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 1957; Harvard University School of Law, LL.B., cum laude, 1960. Law clerk to Judge Morris A. Soper, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1960-61. Attorney. Associate, Piper & Marbury, 1961-62; Venable, Baetjer and Howard, 1965-70. Member, Maryland State Bar Association. Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000. Congressional Recognition Award, International Association of Fire Fighters, 1999. Friend of Education Award, Maryland State Teachers Association, 2000. John V. Kabler Memorial Award, Maryland League of Conservation Voters, 2002. Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award, University of Illinois, 2003. Member, Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Baltimore. Married to Christine Dunbar Sarbanes; three children; five grandchildren.

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