John F. McNulty (b. 1896)
MSA SC 3520-13643
Biography:
Born in Crisfield, Maryland, May 29, 1896. Attended the University of Maryland and St. Charles College, Cape Charles, Virginia, graduated 1916. Married.
John F. McNulty served in the U.S. Navy as lieutenant commander, 1917-1919, and as captain, 1942-1945. He was a member of the Maryland Council of Defense and Resources and served on its Civil Protection Committee about 1940 to 1941. He was president of the Continental Feed Corporation of Baltimore. He also served as a state service officer for the Maryland Veterans Commission. In 1940 he was president of the Maryland State Firemen's Association. In the spring of 1940, he was appointed by Governor Herbert R. O'Conor to the newly-formed Maryland Council of Defenses. In 1934 and 1935 he was a state commander in the American Legion. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates (D) Anne Arundel County, from 1947 to 1966. He chaired the Alcoholic Beverages Committee. In 1952 he became a member of the governor's Legislative Council. He also served as a member of the Commission to Implement the Patuxent River Watershed Act of 1961. He was chair of the Anne Arundel County Social Services Board about 1974. About 1983 he was chair of the Maryland Veterans Home Commission.*
* Note: There is probably a father and son
whose information is intermingled here.
No John F. McNulty born May 29 1896 was found in the
Social Security Death Index.
The SS Death Index lists a John McNulty born in Catonsville,
Baltimore County, May 3, 1920 who died August 1986.
When Governor Theodore McKeldin took office in 1951, he made several decisions with regard to alcoholism in Maryland. First, he made it his personal policy not to serve alcohol in the governor's residence, Government House. Second, based on his belief that alcoholism was a disease, he asked the legislature to allot $25,000 to the State Department of Health to study alcoholism and the treatment of alcoholics. In March 1952, the legislature passed the state budget including that amount to create a Section on Alcohol Studies within the Department of Health. Governor McKeldin also formed a Commission to Study Alcoholism. As chair of the Alcoholic Beverages Committee in the House of Delegates, John F. McNulty introduced House Bill 769 on March 23. Entitled "An Act to add a new section to Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1947 Supplement) title 'Alcoholic Beverages', sub-title 'Restrictions Upon Licensees', the act added Section 94A. The bill was written "authorizing and directing the Comptroller to fix maximum discounts to be allowed by manufacturers or wholesalers of wines and liquors in the sale or distribution of the same and authorizing and directing the Comptroller to require the filing of schedules of prices and proposed price changes at which wines and liquors are sold by such manufacturers or wholesalers and by non-resident dealers." The bill was read the first time on March 23 and referred to the Committee on Alcoholic Beverages. On March 26, Upshur C. Stevenson of the Committee on Alcoholic Beverages reported favorably and the bill was read the second time and ordered printed for its third reading. The bill was read a third time on March 26 and passed unanimously and sent to the Senate. The bill was read for the first time in the Senate on March 27. On March 29, Senator Omar D. Crothers, Jr. from the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, reported the bill favorably and was adopted 18 yeas to 10 nays. The bill was read the third time on March 30 and passed by 20 yeas and 7 nays, and returned to the House of Delegates. In the House, the bill was endorsed, read the third time and finally passed on March 30. The bill became law by chapter 711 of the 1951 Laws of Maryland on May 7, 1951 and went into effect June 1, 1951.
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