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Paul S.
Sarbanes
2007 Rutgers Case Professor of Public Affairs
Thursday, April 10th |
June
1954: Graduated magna cum laude from
Princeton University.
1954-57: Received an honors degree at Oxford University's Balliol College
as a Rhodes scholar.
June 1960: Graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School; married
Christine Dunbar of Brighton, England.
November 1966: Elected to represent Baltimore in the state House of
Delegates, where he served on the Judiciary and the Ways and Means committees.
November 1970: Won a seat in the
House of Representatives, after defeating a 13-term
incumbent and committee chairman in the Democratic
primary.
August
1974: Drew national attention as he
introduced the first article of impeachment against
President Richard M. Nixon as a member of the
House Judiciary Committee investigating the Watergate
scandal.
November 1976: Won a Senate seat,
defeating one-term Republican J. Glenn Beall Jr.
after beating former senator Joseph D. Tydings Jr.
in the Democratic primary.
April 1978: Helped lead the successful
22-day debate on the Senate floor to ratify the
Panama Canal treaty, earning him the enmity of
conservative groups.
November 1982: Won reelection handily
despite an orchestrated campaign against him by
the National Conservative Political Action Committee.
May 1987: Appointed to the committee investigating
the Iran-contra scandal, where he criticized President
Ronald Reagan for allowing a "junta in the
White House."
January 1995: Became the ranking Democrat
on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Committee.
July 1995: Served as ranking Democrat
on the Senate Whitewater Committee, where he argued
sharply with Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.) in
the investigation into President Bill Clinton's
real estate dealings and the suicide of Deputy
White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr.
July 2002: Won passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act while serving as Banking Committee chairman.
It places stricter rules on the accounting industry
to guard against practices that contributed to
Enron Corp.'s failure and other scandals. |
SOURCE: Sarbanes to Retire
From Senate
Surprise Decision Sets Off Scramble in Maryland
Among Potential Successors
By Spencer S. Hsu and John Wagner
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, March 12, 2005; Page A01 |
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