Society of Senates Past
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LEWIS R. RILEY, Secretary of Agriculture, 1994-98

Secretary of Agriculture, 1994-98. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, 1992-94.

Member, County Council, Wicomico County, 1966-78 (president, four years; vice-president, four years).

Member, House of Delegates, 1979-87. Minority Whip, 1982-87. Member, Environmental Matters Committee; Ways and Means Committee.

Member, State Senate, 1987-92. Member, Finance Committee, 1987-89; Budget and Taxation Committee, 1990-92; Joint Committee on Investigation.

Member, Board of Regents, University of Maryland System, 1994-98; Governor's Executive Council, 1994-98; Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, 1994-98; Governor's Council on the Chesapeake Bay, 1994-98; Maryland Food Center Authority, 1994-98; Governor's Pesticide Council, 1994-98; Scenic and Wild Rivers Review Board, 1994-98; State Soil Conservation Committee, 1994-98. Former member, Citizens Advisory Board for Holly Center; Delmarva Advisory Council.

Born in Parsonsburg, Maryland, February 19, 1935. Graduate of Wicomico Senior High School. Farmer; poultryman; businessman. President, Maryland Association of Counties, 1973. Member and past president, Parsonsburg Volunteer Fire Department. Member, Wicomico Farm Bureau. Advisory Board, First National Bank. President, Beaver Run Farms, Inc., a family farm corporation operated with his son, producing grain, swine, and poultry. Board of Directors, Delmarva Poultry Industry. Director, Farmers and Planters Company.

Compiled from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives, February 11, 1999