BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE
PAUL SPYROS SARBANES
UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MARYLAND
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Senator Sarbanes was born in Salisbury, Maryland. After graduating Wicomico Senior High School he attended Princeton University. |
Elected on November 2, 1976
and re-elected in 1982, 1988 and 1994, and most recently re-elected
in November of 2000 to the United States Senate. Serves as Ranking
Member, Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Also serves
on the Joint
Economic Committee; Senate
Foreign Relations Committee; Senate
Committee on the Budget, and is Chairman of the Maryland Congressional
Delegation.
Three-term member of the United States House of Representatives, first elected on November 3, 1970 to the 92nd Congress. Subsequently re-elected to the 93rd and 94th Congresses. Served in Congress as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and the Select Committee on House Reorganization.
Served in the Maryland House of Delegates, 1966-1970. Member of the Judiciary Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. Vice Chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation for the 1968 session.
Executive Director of the Charter Revision Commission of Baltimore City, 1963-1964.
Administrative Assistant to Walter W. Heller, Chairman for President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, 1962-1963. Legislative draftsman with the Maryland Department of Legislative Reference at the 1961 session of the Maryland General Assembly.
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Associate in the Baltimore law firm of Venable, Baetjer and Howard, 1965-1970.
Associate in the Baltimore law firm of Piper & Marbury, 1961-1962.
Law Clerk to Judge Morris A. Soper, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1960-1961.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Princeton University
Scholarship student, received A.B. degree in June, 1954. Majored in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Oxford University
Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, 1954-1957. Received First Class B.A.
Honours degree in the School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Harvard Law School
Scholarship student, received LL.B. degree cum laude in June, 1960.
Served as Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, the Harvard-Radcliffe volunteer service organization.
PERSONAL
Born
in Salisbury, Maryland on February 3, 1933, the son of Spyros (deceased
1957) and Matina Sarbanes (deceased 2001), both of whom immigrated
to the United States from Laconia, Greece. Attended the public schools
in Salisbury, Maryland, graduating in June 1950 from Wicomico Senior
High School. In June 1960, married Christine Dunbar of Brighton,
England, a graduate of St. Hugh's College, Oxford University; Lecturer
in Classics at Goucher College, 1960-1973; and teacher at Gilman
School, 1978 to 2000. Three children, two sons, John Peter, born
May 1962 and Michael Anthony, born January 1965, a daughter, Janet
Matina, born January 1968, and six grandchildren. Member of the
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore.
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