Tyras S. Athey (1927-2010)
MSA SC 3520-11436
Biography:
Born in Burtonsville, Maryland, March 30, 1927. Attended Montgomery County public schools. Married; three children. Died July 20, 2010, in Annapolis, Maryland.
General Assembly:
House of Delegates, Anne Arundel County, 1967-93. Member, Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1976-80; Joint Budget and Audit Committee,
1979-90. Chair, Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation; Executive
Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference; Fiscal Affairs and Governmental
Operations Committee; Anne Arundel County Delegation; Ways and Means Committee,
1979-93. Member, Maryland Committee on Federal Income Tax Conformity,
1982-83; Special Joint Committee on Patuxent Institution, 1988-89.
House Chair, Special Joint Committee on Income Tax Reform. Member,
Rules and Executive Nominations Committee; Legislative Policy Committee;
Management Subcommittee; Spending Affordability Committee; Special Joint
Committee on Energy Pricing. Maryland representative to the Council
of State Governments.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Navy, 1945-47. Governor’s Task Force to Study
Flexibility for Higher Education, 1983-84; Governor’s Task Force on State
Support for Volunteer Fire, Rescue and Ambulance Companies, 1983-85; Fiscal
Review Committee, 1984-86; Executive/Legislative Committee to Study the
Feasibility of a Biennial Budget, 1985; State Trade Policy Council, 1985-89;
Task Force on School Construction Finance, 1987; Governor’s Drug and Alcohol
Abuse Commission, 1991-93. Co-chair, Task Force on Property Tax Reform.
Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention, 1996. Maryland
Secretary of State, 1993-95. Board of Directors, Economic Development
Corporation, 2000-01. Thomas Kennedy Award, Speaker's Society, 2003.
Member, Elks; Moose.
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