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[photo, Leon G. Billings, State Delegate] LEON G. BILLINGS (1937-2016)
Democrat, District 18, Montgomery County

Member of House of Delegates, January 1991 to January 8, 2003. Member, Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee, 1991-93; Judiciary Committee, 1993; Commerce and Government Matters Committee, 1994; Environmental Matters Committee, 1995-99, 2001-03 (agriculture, environment & natural resources subcommittee, 2001-; public utilities subcommittee, 2001-; environmental & natural resources subcommittee, 1995-99); Special Joint Committee on Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program, 1995-2003; Appropriations Committee, 1999-2000 (health & human resources subcommittee, 1999-2000; oversight committee on pensions, 1999-2000; oversight committee on program open space & agricultural land preservation, 1999-2000); Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 2000. Chair, Transportation Committee, Montgomery County Delegation, 1996-2003. Co-founder, Maryland Green Caucus, 1996.

Staff Director, U.S. Senate Environment Subcommittee, 1966-78. Administrative Assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, 1978-80. Executive Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State, 1980-81. Member, Task Force to Study Retail Electric Competition and the Restructuring of the Electric Utility Industry, 1997-98.

Born in Helena, Montana, November 19, 1937. Reed College; University of Montana, B.A. (history & political science), 1959. Served in U.S. Naval Reserve, 1955-63. Political consultant. Director, Washington Politics Program, University of Southern California, 1981-94. Executive Director, U.S. Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, 1982-83. Lecturer and writer on politics and environment; principal staff on federal environmental laws, 1966-78. Married; three children. Died in Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 2016.

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