EDWARD J. KASEMEYER
Democrat, District 12, Baltimore & Howard Counties
Born in Baltimore, July 18, 1945. Attended Howard County Senior High School; Western Maryland College, B.A., 1967. Four children.
General Assembly:
Member, House of Delegates, 1983-87. Member, Economic Matters Committee.
Member of Senate, 1987-90, and since 1995. Deputy Majority Leader,
1996-. Chair, Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 1997- (Member, 1995-).
Member, Budget and Taxation Committee, 1995- (Health, Education & Human
Resources Subcommittee; Chair, Pensions Subcommittee, 1997-); Joint Committee
on Investigation, 1995-; Legislative Policy Committee, 1997-. Member, Finance
Committee, 1987-90; Joint Committee on Federal Relations, 1987-90; Joint
Committee to Study Mandates on Local Government, 1995-97. Past Chair, Joint
Subcommittee on Horse Racing.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Employed in real estate and mortgage banking. Member, Howard
County Democratic State Central Committee, 1978-82. Member, Howard
County Financial Disclosure Commission, 1980-82. Member, Task Force
on Real Property Closing Costs, 1985-86; Special Advisory Commission on
Professional Sports and the Economy, 1987-88; Partnership for Workforce
Quality Advisory Board, 1996; Task Force on the Maryland Prepaid-Tuition
Savings Program, 1996. Co-Chair, Task Force on Funding for the Maryland
School for the Deaf, 1996. Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention,
1996. Board of Directors, Howard County Association of Retarded Citizens;
Howard County Housing Alliance; Greater Howard County Chamber of Commerce,
1976-82 (President, 1980). Member, Howard County General Hospital
Advisory Board.
Compiled March 16, 2000 from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives.