Marvin Mandel

Marvin Mandel
Mandel in 2015
Chair of the National Governors Association
In office
June 4, 1972 – June 3, 1973
Preceded byArch A. Moore Jr.
Succeeded byDaniel J. Evans
56th Governor of Maryland
In office
January 7, 1969 – January 17, 1979*
LieutenantBlair Lee III
Preceded bySpiro Agnew
Succeeded byHarry Hughes
Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
In office
February 1964 – January 1969
Preceded byA. Gordon Boone
Succeeded byThomas Hunter Lowe
Personal details
Born(1920-04-19)April 19, 1920
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedAugust 30, 2015(2015-08-30) (aged 95)
Compton, Maryland, U.S.
Resting placeLakemont Memorial Gardens, Davidsonville, Maryland, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Barbara Oberfeld (1941–1974)
Jeanne Blackistone Dorsey (1974–2001)
EducationUniversity of Maryland, College Park (BA)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (LLB)
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*Blair Lee III served as Acting Governor.

Marvin Mandel (April 19, 1920 – August 30, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting Governor from June 1977 to January 15, 1979 while Mandel was in federal prison for mail fraud and racketeering.[1][2] He was a member of the Democratic Party, as well as Maryland's first, and to date, only Jewish governor.[3][4][5]

Before he became the state's Governor, Mandel had been Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1964 to 1969 and a delegate since 1952.

Mandel was elected as Governor of Maryland on January 7, 1969, by the joint vote of both houses of the Maryland General Assembly due to the approaching vacancy created by the election of Spiro T. Agnew, the incumbent governor, as Vice President of the United States, as there was no lieutenant governor at the time to succeed to the governorship, as in most other states. Such an office was created by amendment in 1970.[6]

  1. ^ "Marvin Mandel (1920–2015) Biographical Series; Governor of Maryland, 1969–1979 (Democrat)". Archives of Maryland, MSA SC 3520-1487. Maryland State Government. September 2, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  2. ^ White, Frank F. Jr. (1970). The Governors of Maryland 1777–1970. Annapolis: The Hall of Records Commission. pp. 311–315. ISBN 978-0942370010. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  3. ^ Barnes, Bart (August 30, 2015). "Marvin Mandel dies; ex-Md. governor's scandals overshadowed state's progress". Washington Post. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  4. ^ Pearson, Richard (October 27, 1985). "Blair Lee III, Former Acting Governor Of Maryland and Noted Politician, Dies". Washington Post. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  5. ^ "Marvin Mandel". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  6. ^ "Lieutenant Governor origin & Functions". Maryland State Archives. Retrieved December 7, 2014.

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