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Paul Spyros Sarbanes (born February 3, 1933) is the senior United States Senator representing the state of Maryland. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Personal Information
Paul Sarbanes was born in the Maryland Eastern Shore city of Salisbury. His father and mother, Spyros and Matina, were immigrants from Laconia, Greece.
A graduate of Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Sarbanes received an academic and athletic scholarship to Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1954. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship that brought him to Balliol College in Oxford, England, graduating first in his class in 1957. Sarbanes then returned to the United States and attended Harvard Law School.
After graduating in 1960, he clerked for Federal Judge Morris A. Soper before going into private practice with two Baltimore, Maryland law firms.
In June 1960, Sarbanes married Christine Dunbar of Brighton, England. They are the parents of three children and the grandparents of six. Sarbanes is a member of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore.
Political Career
In 1966, Sarbanes ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in Baltimore City and won. During his four years as a State Legislator in Annapolis he served on the Judiciary and the Ways and Means Committees.
He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1970 and was reelected in 1972 and 1974. While in the House, Sarbanes served on the House Judiciary Committee, the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and the Select Committee on House Reorganization. It was during his service in the House, in August 1974, that Sarbanes was selected by his Democratic colleagues on the House Watergate Committee to introduce the first Article of Impeachment, for obstruction of justice, against President Richard Nixon.
In 1976 he was elected to the Senate and reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994 and 2000. In 2002, Sarbanes was the Senate sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which reformed federal securities laws in the wake of the 2002 corporate accounting scandals.
Senator Sarbanes serves on the following Senate committees:
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