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Institute. For his personal staff, he was able to attract a group of assistants from Capitol Hill, academia and the professions. Building on his intimate knowledge of the State, Governor Mandel visited every county in the State for first-hand discussions with local officials during his first few months in office. In addition, he appointed an Executive Department liaison officer to the Maryland Association of Counties. Governor Mandel was born April 19, 1920, in Baltimore. He attended Pimlico Elementary School, Garrison Junior High School, and was graduated from City College in 1937. He went to the University of Maryland and then to the University's Law School, receiving his LL.B. in 1942. He enlisted in the Army in 1942 and was an instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground and at Texarkana, Texas. He served until 1944. He began his legal career after the end of his service in World War II. He soon formed a partnership with Stan Franklin and they later established the law firm of Mandel, Gilbert, Rocklin and Franklin. Mandel remained a member of this firm until he was elected Governor. His political career began in 1960 when he served as a Justice of the Peace in Baltimore City. He was also a member of the Governor's Commission on the Municipal Court for Baltimore City. In 1951, his friend, City Councilman Samuel Friedel (Congressman since 1964 to the present) asked him to run for the Democratic State Central Committee. He agreed to run as a favor to Councilman Friedel. His election win began an unbroken string of victories extend- ing to the present. In January of 1952, he was selected by the Democratic State Central Committee to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates from Baltimore City's Fifth District. In 1954, with the support of Baltimore City's Mayor, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., be was elected Chairman of the City's legislative delegation. He was elected to the House of Delegates in the general election of 1954, and was re-elected in 1958, 1962 and 1966. He soon became Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. In 1968, his committee investigated the office of the Baltimore City Police Commissioner. In 1963, he was elected Speaker of the House of Dele- gates and was re-elected every year until he became Governor. Governor Mandel's leadership in the General Assembly was often described as "quiet and cautious." He received national recognition for his legislative leadership and was a member of the 10-man Executive Committee of the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders. As Speaker of the House, he commissioned the Eagleton Institute of Political Science, of Rutgers University, to study ways of modern- izing the General Assembly. Afterwards he implemented the bulk of the Institute's recommendations, making Maryland one of the states leading in the reform and modernization of state legislatures. In July of 1968, he helped organize a National Committee of State Legislators behind the presidential candidacy of Hubert Humphrey. Earlier that year. he was elected Chairman of the Democratic Party's State Central Committee. The Governor was married June 8, 1941, to the former Barbara Oberfeld of Baltimore, and they have two children. Gary, 24, is mar- ried and was graduated from the University of Maryland School of |
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