Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)


[Photograph of State Senator]

CHARLES W. GILCHRIST
Democrat, District 17.

Member of Senate, 1975-78.

Senator Gilchrist died on June 24, 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Treasurer, Montgomery County Democratic State Central Committee. Member, American, Maryland and District of Columbia Bar Associations. Montgomery County Executive, 1978.

Born in Washington, D.C., November 12, 1936. Attended St. Albans School; Williams College, A.B., 1958; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1961; Virginia Theological Seminary, 1986. Admitted to the Maryland Bar, 1962. Served in the U.S. Army. Priest, St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. Director of Operations, New Song Ministry. Died June 24, 1999.

Source: 1977-78 Maryland Manual (Annapolis, Hall of Records Commission, 1977), 57;
"Montgomery Prototype Charles Gilchrist Dies," Washington Post, June 26, 1999.


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