Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Gerald J. Curran (1939-2013)
MSA SC 3520-12206

Biography:

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 20, 1939.  Attended Calvert Hall College High School, 1957; University of Baltimore; University of Baltimore School of Law, LL.B., 1963.  Married; five children. Died March 27, 2013, in Baltimore, Maryland.

General Assembly:
House of Delegates, Baltimore City, 1967-98.  Democrat.  Member, Judiciary Committee; Economic Matters Committee, 1990-93; chair, Workers' Compensation Subcommittee.  House chair, Workers' Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight Committee, 1993.  Chair, Commerce and Government Matters Committee, 1994-98.  Member, Legislative Policy Committee, 1994-98; Rules and Executive Nominations Committee, 1994-98; Joint Committee on the Selection of the State Treasurer, 1996; Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review; Joint Legislative Committee on Metropolitan Mass Transit.  Vice-chair, Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee.  Co-chair, Special Joint Committee on Coal Pipeline Resources.

Private Career and Other Public Service
Insurance broker.  Delegate, Democratic Party National Conventions, 1974, 1976, 1980.  Chair, State Use Industries Advisory Committee, 1984-98.  Board of Directors, Harford Road Partnership, Inc.; Epilepsy Association of Maryland.  Vice-chair, Commission to Study Non-Public Special Education.  Member, Maryland Task Force on Welfare Reform; Third District Young Democratic Club; Unity Democratic Club; Lauraville Improvement Association; Baltimore Life Underwriters; Archdiocesan Commission on the Aging; Knights of Columbus; Ancient Order of Hibernians; Friendly Sons of St. Patrick; Sigma Delta Kappa Law Fraternity Alumni.  Chair, St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee.  Director, United 3rd District Democratic Organization; House of Ruth.   President, Holy Name Society.

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