R. CLAYTON MITCHELL, JR., Democrat, District 36. Born in Chestertown, April
16, 1936. Attended Kent County public schools; Goldey Beacom College. Served in
U.S. Army. County Commissioner of Kent County, 1966-70. Member, Task Force on
Flexibility for Higher Education. Member, Governor's Comprehensive Health
Committee; Commission on Compensation and Personnel Policy; Southern Legislative
Conference of State Government; chairman, Health and Environmental Subcommittee;

Open Space-formula funding; Delmarva Advisory Council; Special Joint Committee to
Study Driver Education Program; Vocational and Technical Education Committee;

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; Capital Projects Subcommittee; Joint
Subcommittee on Pensions. Married; 3 children. Member of the House of Delegates
since 1971. Speaker of the House of Delegates since 1987. Co-Chairman, Legislative
Policy Committee. Chairman, Eastern Shore Delegation, 1974-83. Chairman, Kent
County Delegation. Chairman, Appropriations Committee, 1983-87 (past chairman,
subcommittees on education and human resources, and health and the environment).
Vice-chairman, Spending Affordability Committee. Member, Joint Budget and Audit
Committee. Past member, Rules and Executive Nominations Committee. District
office: Kentmore Park, Kennedyville 21645; tel. 348-5500. Annapolis office: Speaker's
Office, State House, Annapolis 21401; tel. 841-3800.

LEON ALBIN, Democrat, District 11. Bom in Baltimore, December 24, 1925. Baltimore City
College; University of Baltimore, B.S. (marketing), 1951. U.S. Navy, 1944-45. Retired sporting goods
store owner. Member, Democratic State Central Committee, 1974-78. Chairman, Baltimore County
Advisory Committee on Small Business, 1976-77. Member, Baltimore County Board of Liquor
License Commissioners, 1983-87. Member, Pikesville Community Growth Corp.; Liberty Road Task
Force. Member, Board of Directors, Maryland Committee for Israel Bonds; Jewish National Fund;

Save-a-Heart. Member, Baltimore District Zionist Organization (president, 2 years). Member, Jewish
War Veterans. Founding member, Ner Tamid Greenspring Synagogue (chairman, board of directors,
2 years); member, Talmudical Academy (chairman, building fund, 2 years; chairman, Talmudical
Academy dinner, 20 years). Married; 4 children; 2 grandchildren. Member of the House of Delegates
since 1987. Member, Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee; Special Committee on Drug
and Alcohol Abuse. District office: 6512 Edenvale Rd., Baltimore 21209; tel. 486-1365. Annapolis
office: 310 Lowe Bidg., 21401; tel. 841-3342.

GARY R. ALEXANDER, Democrat, District 27. Bom in Washington, D.C, November 16, 1942.
University of Virginia, B.A., 1964; George Washington University Law School, LL.B., 1967. Lawyer.
Member, American Bar Association (chairman, special committee on automobile insurance
legislation, 1978-81); Maryland State Bar Association (chairman, federal law subcommittee,
1974-79); Virginia and D.C. Bar Associations. People's Counsel, Public Service Commission,
1974-77. Chairman, Prince George's County Drug Advisory Committee, 1977; Alternate Fuels Task
Force, 1979. Member, Prince George's County Salary Review Board, 1974; Charter Review
Commission, 1976; Federal Energy Administration State Advisory Panel Executive Committee,
1976-78; citizen representative on Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Public
Advisory Committee, 1982. Prince George's County Democratic Central Committee, 1978-86
(chairman 1981-86). Received Governor's Citation for Public Service, 1974, 1978; selected
Outstanding Young Man, Crescent Cities Jaycees. Married; 2 children. Member of the House of
Delegates since 1983; member, Appropriations Committee. House chairperson. Joint Committee on
Management of Public Funds. Chairman, Bi-County Committee. District office: 10905 Fort
Washington Rd., Suite 307, Fort Washington 20744; tel. 292-3300. Annapolis office: 206 Lowe Bidg.,
21401; tel. 858-3083.