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Marvin Mandel | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Mandel in 2015 | |
| Chair of the National Governors Association | |
| In office June 4, 1972 – June 3, 1973 | |
| Preceded by | Arch A. Moore Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Daniel J. Evans |
| 56th Governor of Maryland | |
| In office January 7, 1969 – January 17, 1979* | |
| Lieutenant | Blair Lee III |
| Preceded by | Spiro Agnew |
| Succeeded by | Harry Hughes |
| Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates | |
| In office February 1964 – January 1969 | |
| Preceded by | A. Gordon Boone |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Hunter Lowe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 19, 1920 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | August 30, 2015 (aged 95) Compton, Maryland, U.S. |
| Resting place | Lakemont Memorial Gardens, Davidsonville, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Oberfeld (1941–1974) Jeanne Blackistone Dorsey (1974–2001) |
| Education | University 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]
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Barnes, Bart (August 30, 2015). "Marvin Mandel dies; ex-Md. governor's scandals overshadowed state's progress". Washington Post. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
- ^ Pearson, Richard (October 27, 1985). "Blair Lee III, Former Acting Governor Of Maryland and Noted Politician, Dies". Washington Post. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
- ^ "Marvin Mandel". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ "Lieutenant Governor origin & Functions". Maryland State Archives. Retrieved December 7, 2014.