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LEWIS R. RILEY, Secretary of Agriculture, 1994-98
Born in Parsonsburg, February 19, 1935. Graduate of Wicomico Senior High School.
General Assembly:
Member, House of Delegates, 1979-87. Minority Whip, 1982-87.
Member, Environmental Matters Committee; Ways and Means Committee.
Member of Senate, 1987-92 (Republican, District 38). Member,
Finance Committee, 1987-89; Budget and Taxation Committee, 1990-92; Joint
Committee on Investigation.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Farmer; poultryman; businessman. Member, County Council, Wicomico
County, 1966-78 (President, four years; Vice-President, four years).
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. Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture, 1992-94. Secretary of Agriculture, 1994-98.
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.
Compiled March 16, 2000 from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives.
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