Paul Spyros Sarbanes was born Feb. 3, 1933, in Salisbury, on Maryland’s Japanese Shore. He was the son of two Greek immigrants, Spyros and Matina (Tsigounis) Sarbanes, who ran the Mayflower restaurant in Salisbury. The household lived upstairs.
A star scholar and athlete at Wicomico Excessive Faculty, Mr. Sarbanes had strictly native faculty ambitions till a Princeton alumnus visited the college and met him. He acquired a full scholarship and have become the primary scholar from Wicomico to go to Princeton.
Mr. Sarbanes graduated in 1954 and received a Rhodes Scholarship. He attended Balliol School at Oxford and acquired a second bachelor’s diploma in 1957. He earned a legislation diploma at Harvard in 1960 and inside a yr or so married Christine Dunbar, whom he had met at Oxford.
He clerked for a federal decide; labored as an aide to Walter W. Heller, the chairman of President John F. Kennedy’s Council of Financial Advisers; practiced legislation in Baltimore; and was govt director of a fee writing a brand new Baltimore Metropolis Constitution.
In 1966 he ran for a seat in Maryland’s Home of Delegates and received, and in 1970 he challenged a 13-term Home veteran, George H. Fallon, chairman of the pork-barrel-rich Home Committee on Public Works, in a Democratic main. Campaigning door to door together with his spouse, Mr. Sarbanes received with 52 % of the vote to the incumbent’s 45 % and went on to win the overall election.
Redistricting after the 1970 census pushed him into one other potential race towards a Democratic Home committee chairman, Edward A. Garmatz. Mr. Garmatz headed the Committee on Service provider Marine and Fisheries, which was essential to the port of Baltimore. However he retired, and Mr. Sarbanes received re-election simply.
He was then elected to the Senate, defeating Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., a Republican, with 57 % of the vote in 1976. He was attacked in 1982 by the Nationwide Conservative Political Motion Committee, which had used the Panama Canal problem in 1980 to assist defeat a number of Democratic senators. However Mr. Sarbanes received comfortably then and once more in 1988, 1994 and 2000, earlier than asserting in 2005 that he wouldn’t run once more in 2006.
