Senators/79

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND

BIOGRAPHIES OF MEMBERS

SENATE

MELVTN A. STEINBERG, Democrat, District 11. Born in Baltimore, October
4, 1933. Attended Baltimore public schools; University of Baltimore; University
of Baltimore Law School, J.D., 1955. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1955.
Served with the U.S. Navy, 1952-1957. Member, State House Trust; State
Commission on the Capital City; Maryland Historical Trust; Maryland Environ-
mental Trust. Member, Board of Advisors, Maryland Vietnam Veterans
Leadership Program; Maryland Veterans Home Commission. Member, Gover-
nor's Employment and Training Council; Interstate Banking Committee; West-
ern Maryland Enterprise Study Commission. Member, B'nai B'rith; Safety
Traffic Club of Baltimore; American Judicature Society; Eagle Square and
Compass Club of Maryland; Yedz Grotto; Grecnspring Valley Synagogue.
Married. Member of the Senate since 1967. Vice-chairman, Judicial Proceedings
Committee, 1975-1978; chairman, Finance Committee, 1979-1982. President of
the Senate since 1983. Co-chairman, Legislative Policy Committee; chairman,
Rules Committee; vice-chairman, Commission to Revise the Annotated Code.
Member, Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics. Member, Executive Committee,
Southern Legislative Conference; Pensions Committee, National Conference of
State Legislatures; National Society of State Legislators. District office: 305 W.
Chesapeake Ave., Suite 113, Towson, 21204; tel. 821-5516. Annapolis office:

President's Office, State House, 21401; tel. 841-3700.

WILLIAM H. AMOSS, Democrat, District 35. Born in Baltimore, December 2, 1936.
Attended Harford County parochial and public schools; Harford Community College;

University of Maryland-Overseas; Missouri School of Auctioneering. Auctioneer and apprais-
er. Served in the U.S. Army, 1955-1958. Member, Commission on Compensation and
Personnel Policies; State Use Industries Advisory Committee; Governor's Task Force on
Vounteer Fire, Rescue and Ambulance Companies. Member, Maryland Farm Bureau:

Maryland and National Auctioneers Associations. Past director, Bel Air Jaycees. Married.
Member of the House of Delegates, 1975-1982. Member of the Senate since 1983; Finance
Committee. Member, Joint Budget and Audit Committee; Special Joint Committee on
Pensions. District office: 2303 Bel Air Rd., Fallston 21047; tel. 838-7555. Annapolis office: 307
James Bldg., 21401; tel. 841-3603.

STEWART BABSUM, JR., Democrat, District 20. Bom in Takoma Park, March 25, 1946.
Attended Takoma Academy; Pacific Union College, B.A. in History, 1968; University of
California at Los Angeles, M.B.A., 1970; Andrews University, graduate study in theology,
1971-1972. Businessman. Chairman, Task Force on Public Transportation, Montgomery
County Democratic Central Committee, 1977-1978; member, Coalition United to Reform
Elections, 1975, 1977. Chairman of Executive Committee, Silver Spring Development Council,
1976-1977, vice-president, 1977-1978. Member, Silver Spring Revitalization Task Force, 1978;

executive board member. Alliance for Democratic Reform, 1974-1975, 1977-1978. Treasurer,
Legislative Study Group, Inc., 1980-1982. Member, State Development Council Task Force;

Governor's Task Force on Violence and Extremism. Named the "Outstanding State Official"
by the Young Democrats of Maryland, 1981. Unmarried. Member of the House of Delegates,
1979-1982. Member of the Senate since 1983. Member, Budget and Taxation Committee; joint
Committee on Budget and Audit; Subcommittee on Corrections and Transportation; Subcom-
mittee on Capital Budget. District office: 912 Thayer Avenue, #210, Silver Spring 20910; tel.
589-3343. Annapolis office: 211 James Bldg., 21401; tel. 841-3634.